¹ Dorothy Cross, younger daughter of Richard Cross; engaged to Laurence Rowntree before his death in France in 1917.

² Stanley Owen Buckmaster (1861–1934), Lib. MP Cambridge 1906–January 1910, Keighley 1911–1915; Solicitor-Gen. 1913–1915, Ld Chanc. 1915–1916; kt. 1913, cr. Ld Buckmaster 1915, Vt 1933. Intermediary between Lloyd George and Asquith 1917–1918.

³ Charles Pascall (1853–1931), Chmn. and Managing Dir. of James Pascall Ltd, mint and sugar confectionary manufacturers.

⁴ Richard Cornthwaite Lambert (1868–1939), Lib. MP Cricklade December 1910–1918.

⁵ A new Military Service Bill was introduced on 14 January 1918, allowing the government to cancel exemptions from service based on occupation.

⁶ Members of the FAU were unpaid, but a few wealthy backers had set up a Special Allowance Fund in 1916 to provide allowances. This was converted in late 1917 into a Maintenance Fund, administered in England by a cttee chaired by A.S.R.

⁷ Alternative Vote; the Representation of the People Bill 1917–1918 was shuttling between the HofL and the HofC. The HofL wished to insert an experiment in proportional representation, while the non-Con, majority in the HofC preferred the Alternative Vote, if there was to be a change in the voting system. Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CI, 2191–2200Google Scholar for the brief debate on 5 February, in which the alternative vote was carried by 195–194.

⁸ William Mather Rutherford Pringle (1874–1928), Lib. MP NW Lanarkshire January 1910–1918, Penistone 1922–1924.

⁹ Ramsay MacDonald was part of a British Lab. delegation which left for Paris on 14 February to confer with the French Socialists. On 20 February 1918 the Inter-Allied Socialist Conference on War Aims opened in London, comprising delegates from the British, French, Italian, and Belgian Labour movements.

¹⁰ Herbert Corder (1864–1937), Quaker businessman from Sunderland; member of Meeting for Sufferings 1915–1936.

¹¹ J.M. Mactavish, Portsmouth shipwright; Gen. Sec. Workers Educational Association 1916–1928.

¹² Charles Alfred Cripps (1852–1941), Con. MP Stroud 1895–1900, Stretford 1901–1906, Wycombe January 1910–1914, when cr. Ld Parmoor; defended COs 1916–1918; m. 1919 Marian Emily Ellis, a Quaker, and joined postwar Lab. Party; Ld Pres, of Council 1924, 1929–1931.

¹³ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CIII, 1584–1591Google Scholar for J.H. Whitehouse's speech on the treatment of COs, particularly H.W. Firth, who had just died at Dartmoor. A.S.R. had raised this case in the HofC on 26 February; Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CIII, 1224.Google Scholar

¹⁴ Frederick Andrews (1850–1922), Headmaster Ackworth School 1877–1920; Clerk of Meeting for Sufferings 1912–1915.

¹⁵ John Bright Clark (1867–1933), eldest bro. of Roger Clark of Street, Somerset; Managing Dir. C. & J. Clark; Somerset County Councillor; Chmn E. Somerset Lib. Association.

¹⁶ The second wave of the German Army's ‘Ludendorff Offensive’ had been launched on 10 April 1918.

¹⁷ The first Quaker Employers' Conference met at Woodbrooke on 11–14 April 1918. A.S.R. served as Chairman.

¹⁸ George Lloyd Hodgkin (1880–1918), Quaker banker, youngest s. of Thomas Hodgkin and son-in-law of H.L. Wilson; died on this journey to undertake relief work in Armenia.

¹⁹ Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), Asst. Sec. Ministry of Reconstruction and Joint Sec. to Whitley Cttee 1917–1919; Lab. MP Nelson and Colne 1922–1931, Wakefield 1932–1954; PS Ministry of Health 1924, Min. of Health 1929–1931, Min. without Portfolio 1940–1942 and 1947, Ld Privy Seal 1945–1947, Dep. Leader Lab. Party 1935–1945. Before 1914 Economics Lecturer Leeds Univ. and known to A.S.R. through his adult education work. Greenwood stood for Southport in 1918, while R.H. Tawney stood for Rochdale.

²⁰ German ‘Paris guns’, able to shell the French capital from behind German lines.

²¹ Philip Bealby Reckitt (1873–1944), Quaker manufacturer and Dir. Reckitt & Sons Ltd of Hull; succ. as 3rd and last Bt 1930.

²² The Military Service Amendment Bill received its Third Reading on 16 April 1918; Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CV, 247–374Google Scholar. A.S.R. voted against the Third Reading and recorded three other votes against the Bill on the same day.

²³ ‘Old Daddy Clark’, resident of Kirbymoorside who met visitors at the station with a wagonette and drove them the three miles to the Harveys' house at Barmoor.

²⁴ Bonar Law's Budget of 22 April 1918 raised income tax from 5s to 6s, increased the charge for a letter to 1½d and introduced a new sugar tax at us 8d per cwt.

²⁵ The Grove, home of William and Anna Maria Harvey, parents of M.K.R.

²⁶ Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818–1905), lawyer and leading evangelical Quaker of the nineteenth century; father of W.G. Braithwaite.

²⁷ Florence Holmes, Quaker from Newcastle and member of York Schools Cttee.

²⁸ Lucy Fryer Morland (1864–1945), Quaker from Croydon; prominent on various Quaker education cttees and as a suffragist and pacifist.

²⁹ Dr Lionel Capper-Johnson (1874–1954), Quaker doctor from Leeds; his wife was Caroline (nee Menzies). ‘Lin’ was a cousin of M.K.R.

³⁰ Mary Jane Godlee (1851–1930), leading Quaker; in 1918 briefly served as acting Clerk of YM – the first woman to fill this role.

³¹ Regulation 27C of the Defence of the Realm Act, published 25 December 1917, required a copy of all pamphlets concerning the war to be lodged with the censor three days before publication. The FSC refused to abide by this injunction.

³² Book of Discipline; document expressing Quaker views on their religion and its practice, first issued by YM in 1738. It was revised several times each century, but changes to Pt I on ‘Christian doctrine’ had been held up since 1911 by disagreements between liberals and evangelicals.

³³ William Littleboy (1853–1936), Quaker manufacturer of chandeliers from Birmingham; Warden of Woodbrooke 1904–1907.

³⁴ Howard Nicholson (1843–1933), leading evangelical Quaker and mission worker.

³⁵ Alice Mary Hodgkin (1860–1955), leading evangelical Quaker and mission worker.

³⁶ The Venturer was the monthly magazine of the FOR. On 23 May 1918 its editor, J.D.M. Rorke, was fined £50 and Headley Bros, its printers, were fined £100 for publishing ‘A letter from the guard room’ by G.M.L. Davies in the Venturer for 6 March 1918. The magistrate ruled the article contravened Regulation 27C of the Defence of the Realm Act.

³⁷ John Hodge (1855–1937), Lab. MP Gorton 1906–1923; Min. of Labour 1916–1917, Min. of Pensions 1917–1919.

³⁸ Welders Wood, nr Chalfont St Peter, Bucks., home of T.E. and Irene Harvey.

³⁹ Helena Augusta Victoria (1846–1923), third daughter of Queen Victoria; widow of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.

⁴⁰ John Gilbert Stephens (1862–1942), Quaker rope manufacturer from Falmouth; member of Meeting for Sufferings 1920–1943.

⁴¹ Ernest Warner (1869–1934), Quaker metal broker; instrumental in buying Jordans Meeting House.

⁴² Lucy Cadbury (nee Bellows) (1881–1956), m. 1912 Henry Tylor Cadbury.

⁴³ Jane Smeal Thompson (1857–1936), wife of Silvanus Thompson and member of Meeting for Sufferings.

⁴⁴ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CVII, 61–130Google Scholar for the Second Reading of the Trade Boards Bill. It simplified the procedure for setting up trade boards and increased their powers. A.S.R. spoke briefly in its favour; Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CVII, 129–130.Google Scholar

⁴⁵ John Gulland, Scottish lawyer and Gen. Sec. National Anti-Gambling League 1906. His salary was paid by the Cadburys

⁴⁶ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CIX, 1236–1282Google Scholar for the Second Reading of the Lotteries (War Charities) Bill; this proposed to allow war charities to hold lotteries. One particular case it was aimed at was the Red Cross and St John's Ambulance who had organized a ‘pearl contribution’ from society ladies. The organizations hoped to raise more by holding a lottery for the pearls, rather than auctioning them. The Bill was defeated by 81–77 with A.S.R. voting in the majority.

⁴⁷ William Hayes Fisher (1853–1920), Con. MP Fulham 1885–1906, January 1910–1918 when cr. Ld Downham; junior whip 1895–1902, Fin. Sec. to Treasury 1902–1903, PS Local Govt Bd 1915–1917, Près. Local Govt Bd 1917–1918, Chanc. Duchy of Lancaster 1918–1919.

⁴⁸ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CIX, 1139–1236 for the Indian debate, mainly on constitutional reform.

⁴⁹ In 1918 the major confectionary companies and two of the bigger trade unions in the industry had set up an Interim Industrial Reconstruction Council to pave the way for a National Joint Industrial Council on the lines recommended by the Whitley Cttee.

⁵⁰ Housing Cttee; A.S.R. was Sec. of an all-party group of MPs and peers set up in 1916 to press for state action on housing.

⁵¹ Civil Service Alliance, small civil service union, merged in the Civil Service Confederation 1921.

⁵² Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), Con. MP Bewdley 1908–1937 when cr. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Fin. Sec. to Treasury 1917–1921, Pres. Bd of Trade 1921–1922, Chanc. of Exchequer 1922–1923, Prime Minister 1923–1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937, Ld Pres, of Council 1931–1935, Leader Con. Party 1923–1937.

⁵³ Joseph King (1860–1943), Lib. MP North Somerset January 1910–1918.

⁵⁴ Bunhill; Adult School in Finsbury, run by the Baker family.

⁵⁵ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CX, 1211–1252Google Scholar for the debate on the Teachers (Superannuation) Bill. Several MPs pressed for the bill to be extended to cover teachers in schools not receiving govt grants (a category which included Bootham and the Mount).

⁵⁶ Hansard, 5th series, 1918, CX, 1311–1390Google Scholar for the debate on treatment of British prisoners of war.

⁵⁷ Lloyd George had seen George V on 5 November and informed him a dissolution was imminent. A.S.R. was re-adopted as Lib. cand. for York on 9 November 1918 and on 14 November Lloyd George decided to call a General Election for 14 December 1918.

⁵⁸ On 19 November 1918 A.S.R. addressed women voters at Peckitt St Adult School. The meeting was announced in the Yorkshire Gazette, 16 11 1918.Google Scholar

⁵⁹ Lloyd George had addressed a meeting of nearly 200 Liberals at io Downing St on 12 November 1918, in which he announced he would fight the election in alliance with the Conservatives, but reaffirmed his Liberalism. At an informal meeting of his supporters on 13 November Asquith was cautiously favourable to this speech, though hostilities soon broke out between the two wings of the party.

⁶⁰ Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes (1879–1954), Con. MP Basingstoke 1917–1920; Min. of National Service 1917–1919, Pres. Bd of Trade 1919–1920, Amb. to USA 1920–1923; KCB 1917, cr. Ld Geddes 1942. Originally Prof, of anatomy and archetypal Lloyd Georgian ‘man of push and go’.