Ashley, Maurice Percy. “Apostle of Disarmament”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1885, p. 177.
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death | Beatrice Webb | Her body was cremated and buried at Passfield Corner, until at Bernard Shaw
's somewhat incongruous suggestion, the ashes of both Webbs were re-buried together in Politicians' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 12 December 1947... |
politics | G. B. Stern | As a schoolgirl GBS
had a brief spell of interest in politics, when she admired Joseph Chamberlain
, wanted to get into parliament, and supported tariff reform. In 1933 she was actually sounded out about... |
Reception | Eleanor Rathbone | During ER
's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill
and Clement Attlee
(whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | By 1930, Kingsley Martin
, editor of New Statesman and Nation, noted that Time and Tide was one of the leading British weeklies. It was read by the leaders of the country, including Prime... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)... |
Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Maurice Percy Ashley
in the Times Literary Supplement wrote that this sympathetic biography, while it contained little that was absolutely new, would make valuable reading for all but experts in its subject. Ashley, Maurice Percy. “Apostle of Disarmament”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1885, p. 177. 177 |
Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Without being lively in the usual sense, wrote the Times Literary Supplement reviewer, the book is live-minded all through. Fyfe, H. Hamilton. “Labour Member”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2242, p. 33. 33 |
Employer | 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... |
death | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was buried in Golders Green Cemetery. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian. |
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