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Society Welcomes Its New President, Ian Huddleston
Journal of the LSNI 11 January-March 2017 Since delivering the CPD Seminar on Charity benefit statement and find it hard to articulate THELaw for the Law Society in February 2015 and demonstrate their public benefit. On So far as the Charity Tribunal is concerned Jenny Ebbage, Partner and Head of the occasion the registration application has acted there have been a number of decisions Charities Team at Edwards & Co. Solicitors, as a catalyst for a wide-ranging governance published. Many of these have arisen from writes on some recent developments. review and also an opportunity for upskilling the institution of statutory inquiries and the Over the year it has been a fast moving boards and those who work with them. From removal of charity trustees. environment for charities in Northern Ireland Friday, 3 June 2016 an updated version of the and it is important for practitioners to keep up online charity registration application form is The Court of Appeal decision in Charity to date so as to provide accurate and timely expected to go live. This is to be a more user Commission for Northern Ireland and Bangor WRITadvice to charity clients or to better inform friendly and intuitive version of the online Provident Trust and the Attorney General for THE JOURNAL OF THE LAW SOCIETY OFthemselves NORTHERN should theyIRELAND sit on a charity board. application process, with a change to the look Northern Ireland, seems to have now settled and flow and format of the questions being the question that Bangor Provident Trust was It would be impossible to cover everything ISSUE 226 January-March 2017 asked. -
97 Winter 2017–18 3 Liberal History News Winter 2017–18
For the study of Liberal, SDP and Issue 97 / Winter 2017–18 / £7.50 Liberal Democrat history Journal of LiberalHI ST O R Y The Forbidden Ground Tony Little Gladstone and the Contagious Diseases Acts J. Graham Jones Lord Geraint of Ponterwyd Biography of Geraint Howells Susanne Stoddart Domesticity and the New Liberalism in the Edwardian press Douglas Oliver Liberals in local government 1967–2017 Meeting report Alistair J. Reid; Tudor Jones Liberalism Reviews of books by Michael Freeden amd Edward Fawcett Liberal Democrat History Group “David Laws has written what deserves to become the definitive account of the 2010–15 coalition government. It is also a cracking good read: fast-paced, insightful and a must for all those interested in British politics.” PADDY ASHDOWN COALITION DIARIES 2012–2015 BY DAVID LAWS Frank, acerbic, sometimes shocking and often funny, Coalition Diaries chronicles the historic Liberal Democrat–Conservative coalition government through the eyes of someone at the heart of the action. It offers extraordinary pen portraits of all the personalities involved, and candid insider insight into one of the most fascinating periods of recent British political history. 560pp hardback, £25 To buy Coalition Diaries from our website at the special price of £20, please enter promo code “JLH2” www.bitebackpublishing.com Journal of Liberal History advert.indd 1 16/11/2017 12:31 Journal of Liberal History Issue 97: Winter 2017–18 The Journal of Liberal History is published quarterly by the Liberal Democrat History Group. ISSN 1479-9642 Liberal history news 4 Editor: Duncan Brack Obituary of Bill Pitt; events at Gladstone’s Library Deputy Editors: Mia Hadfield-Spoor, Tom Kiehl Assistant Editor: Siobhan Vitelli Archive Sources Editor: Dr J. -
Elections 1910 and 2010
For the study of Liberal, SDP and Issue 68 / Autumn 2010 / £6.00 Liberal Democrat history Journal of LiberalHI ST O R Y Elections 1910 and 2010 Ian Packer The 1910 general elections Turning points in British politics? John Curtice The 2010 election Has the mould of British politics finally cracked? Mark Pack The 1910 and 2010 elections Continuity and change in election campaigning Steve Belzak Swinging in the ’60s to the Liberals Mary Murphy and Pontypridd UDC Jonathan Calder Searching for Paddy Logan Discovering Harborough’s Liberal history Liberal Democrat History Group Liberal Leaders of the Nineteenth Century The latest publication from the Liberal Democrat History Group is Liberal Leaders: Leaders of the Liberal Party 1828– 1899. The forty-page booklet contains concise biographies of every Liberal leader from the Great Reform Act to the end of the nineteeth century – the heyday of the Liberal Party. The total of eleven biographies stretches from Lord Grey to Sir William Harcourt, including such towering figures as Viscout Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone. Liberal Leaders of the Nineteenth Century is available to Journal of Liberal History subscribers for the special price of £3.50 (normal price £4) with free p&p. To order, please send a cheque for £3.50 (made out to ‘Liberal Democrat History Group’) to LDHG, 38 Salford Road, London SW2 4BQ. Liberal Leaders of the Twentieth Century The companion volume from the Liberal Democrat History Group is Liberal Leaders: Leaders of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats since 1900. The sixty-page booklet contains concise biographies of every Liberal, Social Democrat and Liberal Democrat leader since 1900. -
Crossing the Floor Roy Douglas a Failure of Leadership Liberal Defections 1918–29 Senator Jerry Grafstein Winston Churchill As a Liberal J
Journal of Issue 25 / Winter 1999–2000 / £5.00 Liberal DemocratHISTORY Crossing the Floor Roy Douglas A Failure of Leadership Liberal Defections 1918–29 Senator Jerry Grafstein Winston Churchill as a Liberal J. Graham Jones A Breach in the Family Megan and Gwilym Lloyd George Nick Cott The Case of the Liberal Nationals A re-evaluation Robert Maclennan MP Breaking the Mould? The SDP Liberal Democrat History Group Issue 25: Winter 1999–2000 Journal of Liberal Democrat History Political Defections Special issue: Political Defections The Journal of Liberal Democrat History is published quarterly by the Liberal Democrat History Group 3 Crossing the floor ISSN 1463-6557 Graham Lippiatt Liberal Democrat History Group Editorial The Liberal Democrat History Group promotes the discussion and research of 5 Out from under the umbrella historical topics, particularly those relating to the histories of the Liberal Democrats, Liberal Tony Little Party and the SDP. The Group organises The defection of the Liberal Unionists discussion meetings and publishes the Journal and other occasional publications. 15 Winston Churchill as a Liberal For more information, including details of publications, back issues of the Journal, tape Senator Jerry S. Grafstein records of meetings and archive and other Churchill’s career in the Liberal Party research sources, see our web site: www.dbrack.dircon.co.uk/ldhg. 18 A failure of leadership Hon President: Earl Russell. Chair: Graham Lippiatt. Roy Douglas Liberal defections 1918–29 Editorial/Correspondence Contributions to the Journal – letters, 24 Tory cuckoos in the Liberal nest? articles, and book reviews – are invited. The Journal is a refereed publication; all articles Nick Cott submitted will be reviewed. -
Speakers of the House of Commons
Parliamentary Information List BRIEFING PAPER 04637a 21 August 2015 Speakers of the House of Commons Speaker Date Constituency Notes Peter de Montfort 1258 − William Trussell 1327 − Appeared as joint spokesman of Lords and Commons. Styled 'Procurator' Henry Beaumont 1332 (Mar) − Appeared as joint spokesman of Lords and Commons. Sir Geoffrey Le Scrope 1332 (Sep) − Appeared as joint spokesman of Lords and Commons. Probably Chief Justice. William Trussell 1340 − William Trussell 1343 − Appeared for the Commons alone. William de Thorpe 1347-1348 − Probably Chief Justice. Baron of the Exchequer, 1352. William de Shareshull 1351-1352 − Probably Chief Justice. Sir Henry Green 1361-1363¹ − Doubtful if he acted as Speaker. All of the above were Presiding Officers rather than Speakers Sir Peter de la Mare 1376 − Sir Thomas Hungerford 1377 (Jan-Mar) Wiltshire The first to be designated Speaker. Sir Peter de la Mare 1377 (Oct-Nov) Herefordshire Sir James Pickering 1378 (Oct-Nov) Westmorland Sir John Guildesborough 1380 Essex Sir Richard Waldegrave 1381-1382 Suffolk Sir James Pickering 1383-1390 Yorkshire During these years the records are defective and this Speaker's service might not have been unbroken. Sir John Bussy 1394-1398 Lincolnshire Beheaded 1399 Sir John Cheyne 1399 (Oct) Gloucestershire Resigned after only two days in office. John Dorewood 1399 (Oct-Nov) Essex Possibly the first lawyer to become Speaker. Sir Arnold Savage 1401(Jan-Mar) Kent Sir Henry Redford 1402 (Oct-Nov) Lincolnshire Sir Arnold Savage 1404 (Jan-Apr) Kent Sir William Sturmy 1404 (Oct-Nov) Devonshire Or Esturmy Sir John Tiptoft 1406 Huntingdonshire Created Baron Tiptoft, 1426. -
90 Review Jones Deacon the Welsh Liberals
REviEWS misleading. Jo was as firmly Bloch also records correctly against propping up Heath as the that Jeremy hankered after a peer- rest of us, but he was perturbed age himself. Certainly Thorpe by some of the arguments against bombarded every successive leader coalition in principle which he on the subject, but the author is a said were nonsense. It was his stern bit unfair to describe Paddy Ash- warning on that issue which col- down’s refusal to nominate him as oured my own later judgments on the party being unwilling to for- the Lib–Lab pact and indeed the give him. There was rather more to formation of the Cameron–Clegg it than that. Following his acquittal coalition. It is doubtful whether at the famous trial for conspiracy Jeremy was ever offered any spe- to murder Norman Scott (which is cific cabinet post – certainly it was well covered in this volume), the not discussed. party executive was keen to pursue I question Bloch’s assertions on Jeremy for the return of £20,000, two other points. Firstly, he sug- which was part of the Hayward gests, as regards the speakership election donation which had been issue in the summer of 1965, that used in his attempts to suppress Jo Grimond may have fancied the Scott. I was appalled at this sugges- position himself at some time in the tion and argued that we had suf- future. I have never thought that fered quite enough bad publicity. was the case: the truth is that the The party president and the chair- matter was badly handled because man agreed the matter should be the MP for Cardigan, Roddy dropped on the clear understand- Bowen, did not come clean and say ing that Jeremy would play no fur- he would accept the deputy speaker- ther part in the party’s hierarchy: in ship. -
Social Reformers and Liberals: The
liBERAL paRTY ColoURS the early 1950s when the party Lady Megan no confidence brought following 32 Michael Meadowcroft, b. 1942: Executive was discussing the the decisive British defeat of the Liberal MP for Leeds West 1983–87. matter. The rivalry and antipathy thundered Revolutionary War at the battle of 33 http://www.bramley.demon.co.uk/ between the left-wing Lady Megan Yorktown. liberal.html Lloyd George46 and the more that she 17 Leslie Mitchell, The Whig World: 34 Information to the author from traditional Lady Violet Bonham 1760–1837 (Hambledon Continuum, Michael Meadowcroft, 23 Mar. 2012. Carter was well known. After didn’t care 2005), p. 4. 35 The Times, 13 Oct. 1964, p. 17. going through a number of options 18 Ibid., p. 13. 36 Information to the author from Lady Megan thundered that she what colour 19 Mark Raymond Bonham Carter Michael Meadowcroft, 6 Mar. 2012. didn’t care what colour the party the party (Baron Bonham-Carter), 1922–1994, 37 Information to the author from fought in – as long as it wasn’t grandson of Liberal prime minister Michael Steed, 6 Mar. 2012. violet. fought in – H. H. Asquith. 38 Block, Source Book, p. 78. 20 Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The 39 Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Graham Lippiatt is a Contributing as long as it Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury Editor to the Journal of Liberal Carter, 1946–69 (Weidenfield and DBE, 1887–1969: daughter of prime History. wasn’t violet. Nicolson, 2000), pp. 199–200. minister H. H. -
37 Jones Liberals Divided
Liberals divided Dr J. Graham Jones examines the February 1921 by- election in Cardiganshire, where Asquithian and Lloyd George Liberals engaged in bitter internecine warfare ‘‘EveryEvery votevote forfor LlewelynLlewelyn WilliamsWilliams isis aa votevote againstagainst LloydLloyd George’George’ 1 lewelyn’s opposed to national waste; In October W. Llewelyn Williams, Liberal ‘L So work for him with zeal and haste.’ MP for the Carmarthen Boroughs since , a By the s Welsh Liberals proudly referred to former close associate of Lloyd George who had the Cardiganshire constituency as ‘the safest seat dramatically fallen out with him primarily over the held by a Liberal member’. This remote, predomi- need to introduce military conscription during nantly rural division on the western seaboard of , wrote to Harry Rees, the secretary of the Wales, so far removed from the hub of political life at Cardiganshire Liberals. ‘You will have seen that the Westminster, and first captured by the Liberals in the Carmarthen Boros are going to be wiped out, & ‘breaking of the ice’ general election of , was that I shall therefore be looking for a new seat ei- held continuously by the party from until the ther in Carm. or elsewhere. I should be glad to defeat of Roderic Bowen in . But this long hear from you what are the prospects in tenure was not always characterised by political har- Cardiganshire?’ Williams wrote in the certain mony, calm and tranquillity. During the early s knowledge that his own seat was about to disappear in particular, intensely bitter political controversy in the impending redistribution of parliamentary beset Cardiganshire. -
1 ANTIQUARY SUBJECTS: 1984 – 2019 Compiled by Jill Davies by Place
ANTIQUARY SUBJECTS: 1984 – 2019 compiled by Jill Davies By place: LOCATION AUTHOR SUBJECT Aberglasney Joyner, Paul John Dyer 1995 Abergwili Davies, J D Bishop Lord George Murray 2001 Abergwili Jones, Anthea Bishop Yorke 1774 2002 Abergwili various Merlin's Hill 1988 Abergwili, Bryn Myrddin Wells, Terry Nature diary 2012 Abermarlais Turvey, Roger Jones family 1558, 1586 2018 Abermarlais Turvey, Roger Jones family 1588, 1604 2019 Aman Valley Mathews, Ioan Trade Unions 1996 Amman Valley Walters, Huw & Jones, Bill Emigrants to Texas 2001 Ammanford Walters, Huw Amanwy 1999 Ammanford Davies, Roy Dunkirk evacuation 2003 Ammanford/Glanaman Walters, Huw Emma Goldman 2003 Black Mountain Ward, Anthony Nant Gare valley settlement 1995 Brechfa Prytherch, J & R Abergolau Prytherchs 2004 Brechfa Rees, David Brechfa Forest 2001 Brechfa Rees, David Forest of Glyncothi 1995 Brechfa Morgan-Jones, D Morgan-Jones family 2006 Broad Oak Rees, David Cistercian grange, Llanfihangel Cilfargen 1992 Brynamman Beckley, Susan Amman Iron Company 1995 Brynamman Evans, Mike Llangadog road 1985 Brynamman Jones, Peter Chapels 2015 Burry Port Davis, Paul Lletyrychen 1998 Burry Port Bowen, Ray Mynydd Mawr railway 1996 1 Capel Isaac Baker-Jones Chapel/Thomas Williams 2003 Carmarthen Dale-Jones, Edna 19C families 1990 Carmarthen Lord, Peter Artisan Painters 1991 Carmarthen Dale-Jones, Edna Assembly Rooms, Coffee pot etc 2002 Carmarthen Dale-Jones, Edna Waterloo frieze 2015 Carmarthen James, Terry Bishop Ferrar 2005 Carmarthen Davies, John Book of Ordinances 1993 Carmarthen -
19 Baines Reforming the Lords
met and half-heartedly agreed to a proposal whereby whilst all peers would remain members, there would Reports be a specific voting section and the independent peers would have a de- cisive influence. The delaying pow- ers would be reduced to six months. Reforming the Lords This had been talked out in the Evening meeting, 19 January, Commons by an unholy alliance of Michael Foot and Enoch Powell. with Vernon Bogdanor and Lord Carrington Carrington went on to look at the Lords today. The Lords currently Report by Malcolm Baines suffered from a lack of credibility which made using what powers it has impossible. Whilst it was effec- House of Lords reform proved a stimulating topic for a tive as a revising chamber, it could crowded meeting at the National Liberal Club in January. not act as a check on the Commons (and through it the executive) be- The speakers were Professor Vernon Bogdanor of Brasenose cause it had no credible basis of College, Oxford, and Lord Carrington, former Conservative membership. However, electing a Foreign Secretary and one-time leader of the Conservatives second chamber would give rise to different problems, depending on the in the House of Lords. extent of the second chamber’s pow- ers. If it had considerable powers, it Professor Bogdanor began by ment’s manifesto. In , the Lords’ would inevitably challenge the looking at the background to the delaying power was further reduced Commons on policy, leading to pa- Parliament Act, which intro- to one year. In the s, life peers ralysis of government; if too little, duced the two-year suspending were introduced and these had origi- then no quality candidates would power of the Lords (as opposed to nally worked well but more latterly apply. -
Orme) Wilberforce (Albert) Raymond Blackburn (Alexander Bell
Copyrights sought (Albert) Basil (Orme) Wilberforce (Albert) Raymond Blackburn (Alexander Bell) Filson Young (Alexander) Forbes Hendry (Alexander) Frederick Whyte (Alfred Hubert) Roy Fedden (Alfred) Alistair Cooke (Alfred) Guy Garrod (Alfred) James Hawkey (Archibald) Berkeley Milne (Archibald) David Stirling (Archibald) Havergal Downes-Shaw (Arthur) Berriedale Keith (Arthur) Beverley Baxter (Arthur) Cecil Tyrrell Beck (Arthur) Clive Morrison-Bell (Arthur) Hugh (Elsdale) Molson (Arthur) Mervyn Stockwood (Arthur) Paul Boissier, Harrow Heraldry Committee & Harrow School (Arthur) Trevor Dawson (Arwyn) Lynn Ungoed-Thomas (Basil Arthur) John Peto (Basil) Kingsley Martin (Basil) Kingsley Martin (Basil) Kingsley Martin & New Statesman (Borlasse Elward) Wyndham Childs (Cecil Frederick) Nevil Macready (Cecil George) Graham Hayman (Charles Edward) Howard Vincent (Charles Henry) Collins Baker (Charles) Alexander Harris (Charles) Cyril Clarke (Charles) Edgar Wood (Charles) Edward Troup (Charles) Frederick (Howard) Gough (Charles) Michael Duff (Charles) Philip Fothergill (Charles) Philip Fothergill, Liberal National Organisation, N-E Warwickshire Liberal Association & Rt Hon Charles Albert McCurdy (Charles) Vernon (Oldfield) Bartlett (Charles) Vernon (Oldfield) Bartlett & World Review of Reviews (Claude) Nigel (Byam) Davies (Claude) Nigel (Byam) Davies (Colin) Mark Patrick (Crwfurd) Wilfrid Griffin Eady (Cyril) Berkeley Ormerod (Cyril) Desmond Keeling (Cyril) George Toogood (Cyril) Kenneth Bird (David) Euan Wallace (Davies) Evan Bedford (Denis Duncan) -
Thecoalition
The Coalition Voters, Parties and Institutions Welcome to this interactive pdf version of The Coalition: Voters, Parties and Institutions Please note that in order to view this pdf as intended and to take full advantage of the interactive functions, we strongly recommend you open this document in Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free to download and you can do so from the Adobe website (click to open webpage). Navigation • Each page includes a navigation bar with buttons to view the previous and next pages, along with a button to return to the contents page at any time • You can click on any of the titles on the contents page to take you directly to each article Figures • To examine any of the figures in more detail, you can click on the + button beside each figure to open a magnified view. You can also click on the diagram itself. To return to the full page view, click on the - button Weblinks and email addresses • All web links and email addresses are live links - you can click on them to open a website or new email <>contents The Coalition: Voters, Parties and Institutions Edited by: Hussein Kassim Charles Clarke Catherine Haddon <>contents Published 2012 Commissioned by School of Political, Social and International Studies University of East Anglia Norwich Design by Woolf Designs (www.woolfdesigns.co.uk) <>contents Introduction 03 The Coalition: Voters, Parties and Institutions Introduction The formation of the Conservative-Liberal In his opening paper, Bob Worcester discusses Democratic administration in May 2010 was a public opinion and support for the parties in major political event.