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Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda

Index Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda

Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (12 June 1883 – 20 July 1958) was a Welsh peeress, businesswoman, and active suffragette. [1]

53 relations: Boarding school, Brompton Cemetery, Case citation, Commons Select Committee of Privileges, D. A. Thomas, David Lloyd George, Emmeline Pankhurst, England, Georgina Brackenbury, H. H. Asquith, Helen Archdale, Henry James, History of feminism, House of Commons, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, Institute of Directors, Life Peerages Act 1958, List of suffragists and suffragettes, London, Mackworth baronets, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, National Portrait Gallery, London, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Ohio State University Press, Parliament Square, Pedestal, Peerage Act 1963, RMS Lusitania, Running board, Sanatogen, Sessions House, Usk, Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, Six Point Group, Somerville College, Oxford, South Riding (novel), St Andrews, St Leonards School, Stanley Baldwin, Statue of Millicent Fawcett, Suffrage, Suffragette, Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, Time and Tide (magazine), University of Wales Press, Vera Brittain, Viscount Rhondda, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, Welsh peers and baronets, Winifred Holtby, ..., Women's Social and Political Union, Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, World War I. Expand index (3 more) »

Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Case citation

Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.

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Commons Select Committee of Privileges

The Commons Select Committee of Privileges is appointed by the House of Commons to consider specific matters relating to privileges referred to it by the House.

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D. A. Thomas

David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician.

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David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and the final Liberal to serve as Prime Minister.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Georgina Brackenbury

Georgina "Ina" Agnes Brackenbury (1 July 1865 – 27 July 1949) was a British painter who was known as a militant suffragette.

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H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

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Helen Archdale

Helen Alexander Archdale (née Russel) (1876–1949) was a Scottish-English feminist, activist, and journalist.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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History of feminism

The history of feminism is the chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women.

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House of Commons

The House of Commons is the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, North Carolina and South Korea.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Institute of Directors

The Institute of Directors (IoD) is a business organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Life Peerages Act 1958

The Life Peerages Act 1958 established the modern standards for the creation of life peers by the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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List of suffragists and suffragettes

This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organizations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mackworth baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Mackworth, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 18792 May 1964) was the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Notting Hill and Ealing High School

Notting Hill and Ealing High School is an independent school for girls aged 4 – 18 in Ealing, London.

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Ohio State University Press

The Ohio State University Press, founded in 1957, is the university press of The Ohio State University.

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Parliament Square

Parliament Square is a square at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster in central London.

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Pedestal

A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, "foot of a stall") or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase.

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Peerage Act 1963

The Peerage Act 1963 (1963 c. 48) is the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted women peers and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and which allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed.

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RMS Lusitania

RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship.

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Running board

A running board or footboard is a narrow step fitted under the side doors of a tram ('''cable car''', trolley, or streetcar in North America), car, or truck.

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Sanatogen

Sanatogen was a "brain tonic" invented by the Bauer Chemical Company, in Germany in 1898 and sold worldwidePei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai (eds) (2014), Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949, Brill Academic Pub,, pp.128-135 In the US it was advertised as a "nerve revitaliser".

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Sessions House, Usk

The Sessions House at Usk, Wales, is a Victorian courthouse by Thomas Henry Wyatt of 1877.

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Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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Six Point Group

The Six Point Group was a British feminist campaign group founded by Lady Rhondda in 1921 to press for changes in the law of the United Kingdom in six areas.

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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South Riding (novel)

South Riding is a novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously in 1936.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.

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St Leonards School

St Leonards School, formerly St Leonards and St Katharines School, is an independent school founded by the University of St Andrews in the nineteenth century.

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Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who dominated the government in his country between the world wars.

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Statue of Millicent Fawcett

The statue of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist leader and social campaigner, in Parliament Square, London, is a work of 2018 by the Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing.

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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Suffragette

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.

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Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda

Lady Rhondda Sybil Margaret Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, DBE (née Haig; 25 February 1857 – 11 March 1941) was a British suffragette, feminist, and philanthropist.

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Time and Tide (magazine)

Time and Tide was a British weekly political and literary review magazine founded by Margaret, Lady Rhondda in 1920.

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University of Wales Press

The University of Wales Press (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales.

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Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist.

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Viscount Rhondda

Viscount Rhondda, of Llanwern in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, DL (19 May 1879 – 30 September 1952) was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor.

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Welsh peers and baronets

This is an index of Welsh peers and baronets whose primary peerage, life peerage, and baronetcy titles include a Welsh place-name origin or its territorial qualification is within the historic counties of Wales.

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Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

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Women's Social and Political Union

The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1917.

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Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom

Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mackworth,_2nd_Viscountess_Rhondda

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