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Chapter 4: Letters 1913
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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Maurice Whitlow wanted to see me about Home Mission matters and so as I badly wanted exercise, I took him on a walk in the morning in the park. I then went to G.N. [ewman]'s to lunch to meet Barbara [McKenzie] – then to a Centenary Peace Committee with Earl Grey in the chair – then heard Balfour and Asquith at the house. A.J.B.[alfour] very poor; Asquith admirable.5 Returned here to write […] – I think Gillman will have the card for the Sheriff's dance – please ask him for it. I should think we should 90 for about an hour about 10 pm. Talk – drink coffee – smile and then, when I see thee looking bored, come away.
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1 Maurice Whitlow (1875–1959), Sec. Friends' Home Mission and Extension Cttee 1915–1920; later joined Salvation Army.
2 Home Missions; an evangelical Quaker movement that provided full-time ministers for congregations.
3 The Peace Cttee of YM was preparing celebrations to mark a century of peace between the USA and Britain.
4 Albert Henry George Grey (1851–1917), Lib. MP South Northumberland 1880–1885, Tyneside 1885–1886 (LU 1886); Gov.-Gen. Canada 1904–1911; succ. as 4th Earl Grey 1894.
5 Hansard, 5th series, 1913, XLVI, 2103–2129Google Scholar for Balfour and Asquith on the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill.
6 Maria Ellis (nee Rowntree) (1845–1941), cousin of A.S.R. from Scarborough branch of family; m. 1867 J.E. Ellis, MP for Rushcliffe.
7 Sir George Paish (1867–1957), Fellow Royal Statistical Society; Ed. Statist 1900–1916Google Scholar, member departmental cttee of Bd of Trade on Railway Accounts and Statistics 1906–1908; kt, 1912.
8 William Mitchell Acworth (1850–1925), barrister, company dir. and member of numerous cttees of inquiry into railways around the world; Con. cand. Keighley 1906, January 1910, 1911; kt. 1921.
9 The Railways (No 2) Bill was approaching its Second Reading. On 30 January A.S.R. made a speech calling for lower charges and higher wages on the railways and demanding a commission of inquiry into the railway companies; Hansard, 5th scries, 1913, XLVII, 1599–1604.
10 John Herbert Robson (1875–1965), Quaker textile manufacturer from Huddersfield active in the Adult School movement.
11 The government's Franchise and Registration Bill was withdrawn after The Speaker ruled on 27 January 1913 that any amendment to the Bill to include women's suffrage would alter the nature of the original Bill and make it out of order. Pro-suffrage backbenchers were offered government time to introduce their own Bill and the government proceeded with a measure to abolish plural voting. Hansard, 5th series, 1913, XLVII, 1019–1030Google Scholar for Asquith's explanation.
12 Francis Dyke Acland (1874–1939), Lib. MP Richmond 1906–January 1910, Camborne December 1910–1922, Tiverton 1923–1924, North Cornwall 1932–1939; Fin. Sec. to War Office 1908–1911, US Foreign Office 1911–1915, Fin. Sec. to Treasury 1915, PS Bd of Agriculture 1915–1916; suce, as 14th Bt 1926.
13 Willoughby Hyett Dickinson (1859–1943), Lib. MP North St Paneras 1906–1918; KBE 1918, cr. Ld Dickinson 1930.
14 Henry Noel Brailsford (1873–1958), Lib. journalist and sec. of the Conciliation Cttee which aimed to unite pro-suffrage MPs in all parties.
15 Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), Lib. journalist and ardent pro-suffragist.
16 Hansard, 5th series, 1913, XIII, 547–555Google Scholar for the Archbishop of York's explanation of why he would vote against the Second Reading of the Irish Home Rule Bill.
17 Herbert George Wood (1879–1963), Quaker theologian and teacher; Warden of Wood-brooke 1914–1918, Dir. of Studies 1915–1941, Prof, of Theology Birmingham Univ. 1941–1946.
18 Helena Hirst, m. F.W. Hirst 1903; great-niece of Richard Cobden. Arrested during suffragette march on HofC 28 January 1913.
19 Sydney Leetham, York businessman, head of Leetham's flour mills, which were notorious for their low wages. He and A.S.R. had a long-running dispute in the January 1910 election about the effect of a tax on imports of corn.
20 Conference of the National Council and officers of NASU on 9 March 1913.
21 Ellen Mary Glaisyer (1873–1913), Huddersfield Quaker and noted temperance worker; Convenor Women's Cttee NASU 1911–1913.
22 Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850–1936), Inspector of Elementary Schools for England 1875–1910, and author, among many other works, of What Is and What Might Be: A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular (1911).Google Scholar
23 William Harvey (1848–1928), father of M.K. R; retd linen and silk manufacturer and prominent Leeds Quaker, active in the Adult School movement.
24 The debate on the cttee stage of the Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Bill; Hansard, 5th series, 1913, L, 1673–1688.Google Scholar
25 Frederick Handel Booth (1867–1947), Lib. MP Pontefraet December 1910–1918.
26 Hansard, 5th series, 1913, LI, 1562–1566Google Scholar for A.S.R.'s speech against the Second Reading of the National Service (Territorial Forces) Bill, a Conservative bill to introduce compulsory military training.
27 Alden was Hon. Sec. of the British Institute of Social Service (founded 1905), an organization closely linked to the Friends' Social Union.
28 The Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill, 1913 was required to correct the decision in Bowles v. Bank of England that collecting new taxes in advance of the Finance Act becoming law each year was a violation of the Bill of Rights. The action had been brought by Thomas Gibson Bowles (1843–1922), Con. MP Kings Lynn 1892–1906, Lib. MP Kings Lynn January–December 1910.
29 Albert Mansbridge (1876–1952), founder of the Workers Educational Association and its first Sec. 1903–1915. Fircroft was run by a committee of representatives of the WEA, the Adult Schools, trade unions and the co-operative movement.
30 Revd William Temple (1881–1944), Headmaster of Repton 1910–1914 and Pres. of the WEA 1908–1924, Rector St James's Piccadilly 1914–1918, Bishop of Manchester 1921–1929, Archbishop of York 1929–1942, Archbishop of Canterbury 1942–1944.
31 Philip Edward Morrell (1870–1943), Lib. MP Henley 1906–January 1910, Burnley December 1910–1918.
32 Arthur Lionel Smith (1850–1924), Dean of Balliol College, Oxford 1907–1916, Master 1916–1924. Passionately committed to university extension movement.
33 Charles Gore (1853–1932), Bishop of Worcester 1902–1904, Birmingham 1905–1911, Oxford 1911–1919.
34 Hansard, 5th series, 1913, LIII, 1661–1666Google Scholar for A.S.R.'s speech on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill in favour of a Labour amendment to reduce food taxes and raise direct taxes. The amendment was lost 256–38 with 14 Liberals, including A.S.R., in the minority.
35 A male suffragist in the Strangers' Gallery threw a bag of flour at Asquith and the Chamber was scattered with leaflets urging MPs to ‘Remember Miss Davison’.
36 Robert Threshie Reid (1846–1923), Lib. MP Hereford 1880–1885, Dumfries 1886–1905; Solicitor-Gen. 1894, Attorney-Gen. 1894–1895, Ld Chane. 1905–1912; kt. 1894, cr. Ld Loreburn 1906, Earl 1911.
37 Thomas Wallace Russell (1841–1920), LU (Lib. from 1904) MP South Tyrone 1886–January 1910, North Tyrone 1911–1918; PS Local Govt Bd 1895–1900, Vice-Pres. Dept of Agriculture for Ireland 1907–1918; Bt 1917.
38 Hansard, 5th series, 1913, LIV, 438–449Google Scholar for Lloyd George's statement on the Marconi affair, in which he admitted an action which ‘lent itself to misconstruction’ but severely attacked the Tories for accusing him of corruption.
39 W.A. Forster Todd, leading Conservative in York; Ld Mayor 1915–1918.
40 Tom King, Bristol industrialist.
41 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), founder of the Women's Social and Political Union. Sentenced to three years imprisonment on 2 April 1913 for incitement to violence.
42 Isaac Sharpless (1848–1920), American Quaker; Pres. Haverford College 1887–1917.
43 The Dogs (Protection) Bill, 1913.
44 P.T. Evans, A.S.R.'s accountant.
45 Hansard, 5th scries, 1913, LV, 1160–1163Google Scholar for A.S.R.'s speech on the Second Reading of the National Insurance (1911) Amendment Bill. He argued that maternity benefit should be paid directly to women and that married women should be entitled to a benefit of 305.
46 The annual conference of the Student Christian movement at Swanwick, Derbyshire on 14–21 July 1913.
47 At the Committee stage of the National Insurance (1911) Amendment Bill A.S.R. voted against the government twice and in favour of paying maternity benefit directly to wives; Hansard, 5th series, 1913, LVI, 1533–1538, 1544–1546.Google Scholar
48 Edward Grubb (1854–1939), leading liberal theologian within Quakerism; owner and Ed. British Friend 1901–1913Google Scholar, Treasurer No-Conscription Fellowship 1915–1919.
49 A.S.R. was attending a conference organized by the Garton Foundation, an organization set up in 1912 to promote the ideas of Norman Angeli.
50 Samuel Doncaster (1853–1937), steel manufacturer in Sheffield; brother of A.S.R.'s stepmother, Helen Doncaster Rowntree.
51 Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Lab. MP Dundee 1922–1924; Sec. Congo Reform Association 1904–1912; Ed. African Mail 1903–1915Google Scholar; Lib. cand. Birkenhead 1912, but resigned 1914; leading figure in UDC in World War I.
52 Charles Sarolea (1870–1953), Lecturer in French Edinburgh University 1894–1931; Ed. Everyman magazine 1912–1917.
53 Sophia Sturge (1849–1936), Quaker, well known for her work in Ireland.
54 John William Graham (1859–1932), Quaker historian and philosopher; Principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester University 1897–1924.
55 Sir Herbert Henry Raphael (1859–1924), Lib. MP South Derbyshire 1906–1918; Bt 1911.
56 Reginald Balliol Brett (1852–1930), Lib. MP Penryn & Falmouth 1880–1885; Sec. to Office of Works 1895–1902, member Cttee of Imperial Defence from 1904; succ. as 2nd Vt Esher 1899. Royal confidante and inveterate intriguer, especially in military affairs. At this time a supporter of the Garton Foundation.
57 Hon. Philip James Stanhope (1847–1923), Lib. MP Wednesbury 1886–1892, Burnley 1893–1900, Market Harborough 1904–1905, when cr. Lord Weardale; anti-armaments campaigner.
58 Sir John Edward Bingham (1839–1915), Head of Walker & Hall of Sheffield and Pres. Hallam Con. Association; Bt 1903.
59 Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield (1858–1940), Chmn and Managing Dir. Hadfield Ltd; kt. 1908, Bt 1917; inventor of manganese steel.
60 Clementina Caroline Anstruther-Thomson (d. 1921). Her brother was William Anstruther-Gray (1859–1938), Con. MP St Andrews 1906–January 1910, December 1910–1918.
61 Possibly Jane Whyte, wife of Alexander Whyte, Principal New College, Edinburgh 1909–1918.
62 Sir Richard Charles Garton (1857–1934), Dir. Manbre Garton Ltd and originator of Garton Foundation; kt. 1908.
63 John Hilton (1880–1943), journalist; acting sec. Garton Foundation 1914–1918, Asst Sec. and Dir. of Statistics Min. of Labour 1919–1931, Prof, of Industrial Relations Univ. of Cambridge 1931–1943.
64 Senghenydd; site of a major colliery disaster in which 439 men lost their lives.
65 Herbert Stanley Jevons (1875–1955), Fulton Prof, of Economics and Political Science University College, Cardiff 1905–1911; engaged full-time in housing reform in South Wales 1911–1914; Prof, of Economics, Univ. of Allahabad 1914–1923, Univ. of Rangoon 1923–1930.
66 William Fryer Harvey (1885–1937), bro. of M.K.R; doctor, served in FAU 1914, Surgeon-Lt in Royal Navy 1917; Warden of Fircroft 1920–1925. Author of We Were Seven, a memoir of his family.
67 Donald Maclean (1864–1932), Lib. MP Bath 1906–January 1910, Peebles & Selkirk December 1910–1922, North Cornwall 1929–1932; Dep. Chmn Cttee of Ways and Means 1911–1918, Leader in HofC of Asquithian Libs 1919–1920, Pres. Bd of Education 1931–1920; KBE 1917. His wife was Gwendolen Margaret Maclean (nee Devitt).