House of Commons

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Material Conditions of Writing Edna Lyall
She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy , a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons to hear debates on Ireland, and...
Occupation Freya Stark
FS was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some...
Occupation Mary Agnes Hamilton
In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons , and was soon...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
In 1866 JSM presented to the House of Commons with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , and Emily Davies , and signed by...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
In 1867 Mill presented the House with a second petition in support of women's suffrage, signed by more than twice as many women as the first.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
163
The same year he moved to amend the...
Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
ER was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that...
Occupation Henry Peter, Baron Brougham
He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed Queen Caroline's defence during her trial for adultery in 1820, and was appointed...
Occupation Millicent Garrett Fawcett
She attended important debates in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons , and had to read and write for her husband: I grappled with newspapers and Blue-books . . . and learned more...
politics Constance Lytton
In connection with the suffragist rush on the House of Commons on the second of these days, CL , though not yet a militant, involved herself in behind-the-scenes support for the active demonstrators.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
18-30
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS 's first suffrage meeting, in fact, became a deputation heading for the House of Commons , where it was met by violence. She dreamed about the event that night and joined the WSPU next...
politics Clara Codd
CC took part in the rush on the House of Commons led by Christabel Pankhurst . She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol , becoming the...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway , having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Lady Sybil Smith outside the House of Commons .
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
144-5
politics Constance, Countess Markievicz
About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books.
243, 245
Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg.
104-5

Timeline

14 January 1766: William Pitt appealed to the House of Commons...

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14 January 1766

William Pitt appealed to the House of Commons to treat America as a kindly, paternalistic husband would treat a wife.

4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...

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4 February-13 April 1769

Disputes occurred over John Wilkes 's right to take his seat in the House of Commons , from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.

After March 1770: Following representations by merchants to...

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After March 1770

Following representations by merchants to the House of Commons , the duties on colonial trade with America imposed in 1767 were repealed—all except that of threepence a pound on tea.

6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...

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6 February 1772

The House of Commons rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican belief.

1778: The House of Commons barred women from attending...

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1778

The House of Commons barred women from attending debates to listen from the gallery, as they had often done until then.

6 April 1780: The Radical cause in Britain was advanced...

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6 April 1780

The Radical cause in Britain was advanced when the House of Commons passed a motion by John Dunning (later Baron Ashburton) , that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to...

27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...

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27 February 1782

The House of Commons , on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III to end the war with the United States.

17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...

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17 June 1783

Sir Cecil Wray , a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.

1-2 July 1784: Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought...

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1-2 July 1784

Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought to the attention of the House of Commons .

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .

1789: During the year following passage of the...

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1789

During the year following passage of the Slave-Trade Regulation Bill, the House of Commons postponed until next session a decision about abolition; meanwhile a push for regulation as opposed to abolition was gaining ground.

2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...

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2 March 1790

Charles James Fox proposed in the House of Commons the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters ). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).

19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...

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19 April 1791

Wilberforce 's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons .

2 April 1792: William Wilberforce moved once again in the...

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2 April 1792

William Wilberforce moved once again in the House of Commons for complete abolition of the slave trade. The ensuing all-night debate ended in a victory, 230 votes to 85.

11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...

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11 May 1792

Fox again proposed in the House of Commons that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters ; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.

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