Read about some of the forgotten heroes of the Liberal Party, people who played important roles in liberalism’s successes and survival but who are now mostly forgotten.
More usually known as H.A.L. Fisher, Herbert Fisher was the doubly rare combination of an academic who successfully took his expertise to a mass public audience and a thinker who successfully implemented his ideas as a politician. … Read the full post »
Desmond, later Lord, Banks was one of the central figures in keeping the Liberal Party going after the Second World War. He became a life peer in 1974. … Read the full post »
Pratap (later Lord) Chitnis was the post-war Liberal Party’s first grassroots campaigning mastermind. … Read the full post »
Bertha Bowness Fischer, however, has a claim that transcends parties. She was not only the first formally qualified female Liberal Party election agent, she was also the first formally qualified female election agent regardless of party. … Read the full post »
Nick Robinson has returned to the radio for a second series of his short portraits of British Prime Ministers and in the list this time is Earl (Charles) Grey … Read the full post »
Lady Louise Glen-Coats was a significant female Liberal in the first half of the twentieth century but, lacking a famous surname, has fallen into the cracks of history. … Read the full post »
Technically born Beatrice Nancy Seear, but known by her middle name, Nancy Seear in her time was one of the most prominent female politicians for the Liberals and then Liberal Democrats, feared for her formidable grasp of detail. … Read the full post »
“I am a Liberal and I am against this sort of thing” – Clarence Henry Willcock, usually called Harry. … Read the full post »
Born in 1873, Charles Masterman was the great nephew of Elizabeth Fry (of £5 bank note fame for her work in making the prison system humane). … Read the full post »
Margaret Wintringham was the third woman to be elected an MP, the second to take her seat and the first to be a Liberal for her two female predecessors in winning election were Countess Markievicz (Sinn Fein, did not take her seat) and Nancy Astor (Conservative, first female MP to take her seat). … Read the full post »