Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
under Henry Fawcett
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Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | Alfred Lyttelton
delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone
resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Henry Fawcett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | Of GF
's three brothers,:Granville George
, who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's
Foreign Secretary; William
died young following an accident; and Freddy
, who also became a politician, edited... |
Education | Harriet Hamilton King | From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she... |
Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | Little is known about EL
's life before she met her famous husband. An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre
at Churchill College
, Cambridge, may provide more information. |
Characters | Augusta Gregory | In the pamphlet Gladstone
's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG
later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this... |
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