Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lant Carpenter
Liberal Party
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Carpenter | MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
, was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke
and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her father, Alexander Clapperton
, was a successful merchant who owned businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was also active and influential in local politics, and was known to have Liberal
sympathies. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Temple, H. B., editor. “Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, Authoress”. The Women’s Penny Paper, Vol. 1 , No. 35, 22 June 1889, pp. 1-2. 1.35 (22 June 1889): 1 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Fisher | Thomas Slack
, husband of AF
, published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal
voice in the region. Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol. 6 , No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8. 136 Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol. 33 , No. 1-2, John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 11-38. 31 |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations catapulted HM
into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge
and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet
. Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 212, 214 |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
| Occupation | Henry Peter Baron Brougham | In 1802 Henry Brougham
helped to found the Edinburgh Review; he became a regular contributor to this reigning Whig
periodical. To the first twenty numbers he contributed eighty articles on subjects ranging from science... |
| 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 |
| Occupation | Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay | TBBM
received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton
in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party
in Parliament
. There he took a role in passing the... |
| politics | Thomas Moore | He supported the Whig Party
. These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron
, an ardent Whig. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 |
| politics | Henrietta Müller | Her predecessors had argued that it was impossible for two women to oversee all education of girls in London (while boys had forty-seven men attending to their interests). Nevertheless HM
, flying her stripes with... |
| politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
| politics | Queen Victoria | QV
's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics qtd. in Lytton, Edith, Countess of. Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, 1895-1899. Editor Lutyens, Mary, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. 43 |
| politics | Annie S. Swan | In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS
's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations
(whose later fall... |
Timeline
5 March 1894: The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) became Prime...
National or international item
5 March 1894
The Earl of Rosebery
(Liberal
) became Prime Minister after Gladstone
's resignation.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
5 December 1905: Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,...
National or international item
5 December 1905
Liberal
leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour
.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
4
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
51
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
7 February 1906: A general election brought the Liberal Party...
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7 February 1906
A general election brought the Liberal Party
to power in Britain by a great majority.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
7 April 1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal) became the...
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7 April 1908
Herbert Henry Asquith
(Liberal
) became the British Prime Minister following the resignation of Campbell-Bannerman
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.
November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...
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November 1909
The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George
passed successfully through the House of Commons
; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords
.
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
National or international item
7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171
1912: The Liberal Government began censoring Votes...
National or international item
1912
The Liberal
Government began censoring Votes for Women, the Women's Social and Political Union
's weekly journal.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
295
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
76
11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...
National or international item
11 April 1912
Asquith
brought forward the Liberal party
's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond
of the Irish Party
.
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Building item
May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour
candidates in constituencies where a Liberal
anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
144-5
17 June 1912: The Liberals' long-promised Franchise Bill...
National or international item
17 June 1912
The Liberal
s' long-promised Franchise Bill passed its first reading in the House of Commons; its second reading followed on 12 July 1912.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
172
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
National or international item
14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
15 November 1922: In the British general election the Conservative...
National or international item
15 November 1922
In the British general election the Conservative Party
, under its recently-elected leader Bonar Law
, won a majority of 77, ending David Lloyd George
's Liberal
-Conservative coalition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....
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6 December 1923
A general election was held in Britain.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under UK General Election 1923
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