John Stuart Mill (2)
Wife: Harriet Taylor Mill
The Subjection of Women
From an early age, John Mill knew his opinion of women and where they should stand, "That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes-- the legal subordination of one sex to the other-- is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement..." (Mill 1) That this type of hindrance to human kind should be replaced by "admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." (Mill 1)
In 1866 Mill proposed that women be granted the parliamentary vote. Some MPs considered the idea so ludicrous that they laughed... Byu1929 though women had equal voting rights with men, and women sat as MPs in parliament. (Smith 84).
David Lloyd George (1)
Prime Minister
Margaret Lloyd George
Megan Lloyd George daughter
Believed that since equality for all women wouldn't happen, laws pertaining to single women shouldn't be passed... supporter for women but wouldn't do anything about it.
A victim of violence from the WSPU, as they burned down the structure of his soon to be home.
Later in 1911 David Lloyd George developed an alternative to the conciliation Bill: a government franchise bill drafted to allow women's suffrage amendments to be added to it.
He anticipated this would grant the vote to working-class women who were likely to be liberal voters, George urged suffragists to reject the Bill.
The Conciliation Bill was introduced to revive and optimism that legislation would be passed. The NUWSS urged its affiliated societies to lobby local councils to endorse it, in order for it to be demonstrated to a broader public. (3) (p 44)
Unfortunately, the WSPU's revived large-scale militant action prior to the vote caused the support for women's suffrage decline... and the MPs who had expressed support began to waver.
The Bill was later defeated by a vote of 222 to 208, on man- a relieved Asquith informed the liberal chief whip: "I think we are now nearly out of the wood'" he replied after the defeat of the bill. (3) (p 45).
The Conciliation Bill caused another rift between the NUWSS and WSPU as the NUWSS believed militancy was responsible for the defeat.
Richard Pankhurst (1)
Wife: Emmeline Pankhurst
Pankhurst was a radical lawyer, who later became part of the radical Manchester Society, which was latter established by Elizabeth Wolstenholme in 1866. Prior to the London Society, the Manchester Society was the dominant suffrage organization in the early years of the campaign... the Manchester Society was responsible for bringing the local suffrage groups together in the National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS). (3) (p 5).
Drafted the first women's suffrage bill (3) (p 5) although Jacob Bright introduced it into parliament in 1870. (3) (p 6).
"In the 1860s the idea of women voting seemed so radical that reformers thought it best to base thier proposal on property ownership rather than sex discrimination" (3) (p 85).
Wife: Harriet Taylor Mill
The Subjection of Women
From an early age, John Mill knew his opinion of women and where they should stand, "That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes-- the legal subordination of one sex to the other-- is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement..." (Mill 1) That this type of hindrance to human kind should be replaced by "admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." (Mill 1)
In 1866 Mill proposed that women be granted the parliamentary vote. Some MPs considered the idea so ludicrous that they laughed... Byu1929 though women had equal voting rights with men, and women sat as MPs in parliament. (Smith 84).
David Lloyd George (1)
Prime Minister
Margaret Lloyd George
Megan Lloyd George daughter
Believed that since equality for all women wouldn't happen, laws pertaining to single women shouldn't be passed... supporter for women but wouldn't do anything about it.
A victim of violence from the WSPU, as they burned down the structure of his soon to be home.
Later in 1911 David Lloyd George developed an alternative to the conciliation Bill: a government franchise bill drafted to allow women's suffrage amendments to be added to it.
He anticipated this would grant the vote to working-class women who were likely to be liberal voters, George urged suffragists to reject the Bill.
The Conciliation Bill was introduced to revive and optimism that legislation would be passed. The NUWSS urged its affiliated societies to lobby local councils to endorse it, in order for it to be demonstrated to a broader public. (3) (p 44)
Unfortunately, the WSPU's revived large-scale militant action prior to the vote caused the support for women's suffrage decline... and the MPs who had expressed support began to waver.
The Bill was later defeated by a vote of 222 to 208, on man- a relieved Asquith informed the liberal chief whip: "I think we are now nearly out of the wood'" he replied after the defeat of the bill. (3) (p 45).
The Conciliation Bill caused another rift between the NUWSS and WSPU as the NUWSS believed militancy was responsible for the defeat.
Richard Pankhurst (1)
Wife: Emmeline Pankhurst
Pankhurst was a radical lawyer, who later became part of the radical Manchester Society, which was latter established by Elizabeth Wolstenholme in 1866. Prior to the London Society, the Manchester Society was the dominant suffrage organization in the early years of the campaign... the Manchester Society was responsible for bringing the local suffrage groups together in the National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS). (3) (p 5).
Drafted the first women's suffrage bill (3) (p 5) although Jacob Bright introduced it into parliament in 1870. (3) (p 6).
"In the 1860s the idea of women voting seemed so radical that reformers thought it best to base thier proposal on property ownership rather than sex discrimination" (3) (p 85).