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1910

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2016

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Adopted with much enthusiasm by the Liberal ‘300’ at Droitwich. In the evening to a packed and rollicking meeting at Kidderminster. Sir Edward Fraser, Liberal candidate for the Borough and Mr. Brooks, our working-man humourist and orator of Stourbridge, also addressed meeting.

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References

1 Edward Fraser (1851–1921): Lib. candidate East Nottingham 1900 and for Kidderminster in the first general election of 1910; four times mayor of Nottingham; knighted 1908.

2 Unidentified.

3 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.

4 Thomas Grosvenor Lee (c.1846–1916): solicitor; Lib. candidate Birmingham Central 1906; formerly a Liberal Unionist.

5 F. Coysh: Secretary of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers’ Association. He was defeated at the election.

6 Arthur Earle (b. c.1879): private secretary to CBH.

7 John William Wilson (1828–1932): MP Worcestershire North 1895–1918, Stourbridge 1918–1922; first elected as a Lib. Unionist, re-elected as a Lib. in 1906; Privy Councillor 1911.

8 J.W.K Brockbank: appointed to the pastorate of Droitwich in 1907; later Superintendent Chaplain to the Mariners’ Friend Society.

9 David Ross Fotheringham (d. 1939 at age 66): secretary of the Church of England Liberal and Progressive Union 1904–1912.

10 John Cavendish Lyttelton (1881–1949). Con. MP Droitwich 1910–1916; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War 1939–1940; succ. as 9th Viscount Cobham 1922.

11 William Adam of Lyndholm, Kidderminster.

12 Maximilian Hope (? c.1868–1922), of Birmingham, a collier's son and a National Liberal Federation speaker.

13 Henry Beakbane (b. c.1879–1953), tanner.

14 John William Willis Bund (1843–1928): Con. candidate North Worcestershire 1885; Chairman of Worcestershire County Council 1892–1923.

15 Ralph Norman Angell Lane, usually known as Norman Angell (1872–1967): journalist in USA and Paris; Paris editor of the Daily Mail 1905–1912; Lab. MP Bradford North 1929–1931; awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1933.

16 Bertrand Edward Dawson (1864–1945): Physician Extraordinary to King Edward VII 1907–1910; Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V 1910–1936; cr. 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn 1936.

17 Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth (1872–1929): the fifth of the Harmsworth brothers; Liberal Imperialist candidate for Gravesend 1900; Unionist candidate for Shropshire (Wellington Division) 1906; cr. baronet 1922; co–editor, with CBH, of the short-lived New Liberal Review.

18 King Edward VII (1841–1910): reigned 1901–1910.

19 Geraldine Mary Harmsworth, née Maffet (1838–1925).

20 Probably Henry Gilbert Price (d. 1958 at age 78): principal private secretary to Northcliffe from 1909; OBE 1918. He was not, however, a doctor.

21 Probably Northcliffe's chauffeur, and perhaps a misspelling; a man named Payne had previously raced a Northcliffe-owned Mercedes at Brooklands.

22 In 1908.

23 Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray (1870–1920): styled The Master of Elibank 1871–1912; Lib. MP Midlothian 1900–1906, 1910–1912, Peebles and Selkirk 1906–1910; Comptroller of the Household 1905–1909; Under-Secretary of State for India 1909–1910; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) 1910–1912; resigned due to Marconi Scandal 1912; cr. Baron Murray of Elibank 1912.

24 James Dundas White (1866–1951): Lib. MP Dunbartonshire 1906–1910, Glasgow Tradeston 1911–1918.

25 Poynters Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, the residence of Geraldine Harmsworth; Cecil Harmsworth commissioned some etchings of it by S.M. Litten in 1926.

26 Colonel Sir Joseph West Ridgeway (1844–1930): civil servant and colonial governor; Governor of Ceylon 1896–1903; unsuccessful Lib. parliamentary candidate 1906, 1910; became President of North Borneo Company, 1910.

27 Edward Priaul Tennant (1859–1920): Lib. MP Salisbury 1906–1910; succ. as 2nd baronet 1906; cr. Baron Glenconner 1911.

28 Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870–1958): Lib. MP Elland 1899–1918; Lab. MP Newcastle Central 1922–1931; Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Education 1908–1914; President of Board of Education 1924, 1929–1931; succ. as 3rd baronet 1928.

29 John Edward Bernard Seely (1868–1947): Con. MP Isle of Wight 1900–1904; Lib. MP Isle of Wight 1904–1906, Liverpool Abercromby 1906–1910, Ilkeston 1910–1922, Isle of Wight 1923–1924; Secretary of State for War 1912–1914; cr. Baron Mottistone 1933.

30 Herbert Henry Raphael (1859–1924): Lib. MP South Derbyshire 1906–1918; cr. baronet 1911. He shared Harmsworth's interest in town planning.

31 Gould May (1863–1944), MRCP: consulting gynaecologist to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women; knighted 1923. Together with Thomas Horder, he signed the bulletin announcing the death of Andrew Bonar Law in 1923.

32 John Henry Bernard (1860–1927): Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity at TCD 1889–1911; Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1902–1911; Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1911–1915; Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin 1915–1919; m. Maude Nannie Bernard (d. 1940) 1885.

33 Walter Roper Lawrence (1857–1940): Indian civil servant 1879–1903; cr. 1st baronet 1906.

34 Major Henry Francis Trippel (d. 1930 at age 64): promoter of the Union Jack Club, a London institution for servicemen; knighted 1909.

35 Arnold Henry White (1848–1925): journalist and publicist, author of Efficiency and Empire (London: Methuen, 1901); served on executive of Navy League; a controversial figure of the Edwardian radical right.

36 Claude Grahame-White (1879–1959): pioneering aviator, first to fly at night (during Daily Mail-sponsored London–Manchester air race); established flying school and Grahame-White Aviation Group 1911.

37 Unidentified.

38 Unidentified.

39 Unidentified.

40 William Hugh Spottiswoode (1864–1915): director and manager of the printers and publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode.

41 Thomas Johnstone Lipton (1848–1931): tea merchant; enthusiastic sailor, competed in America's Cup five times 1899–1930.

42 Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910): motoring and aviation pioneer; co-founder of Rolls-Royce car company; first Briton to be killed in a flying accident, July 1910.

43 Alfred Rawlinson (1867–1934); soldier; motoring and aviation pioneer; succ. as 3rd baronet 1925.

44 Léon Morane (1885–1918): French aviation pioneer.

45 John Armstrong Drexel (1891–1958): American aviation pioneer; co-founder of East Boldre Flying Club (2nd in Britain and 5th in world); set new world altitude record of 6,750 feet, 12 August 1910.

46 Alan Reginald Boyle (1886–1958): youngest son of 7th Earl of Glasgow; founder of Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate 1909; producer of first British-built monoplane, the Avis.

47 Constance Mary Baker (c.1875–?1935): family friend.

48 Elizabeth Parkes (b. c.1844).

49 Oswald Partington (1872–1935): Lib. MP High Peak 1900–1910, Shipley 1915–1918; Progressive LCC Alderman 1913–1920; succ. as 2nd Baron Doverdale 1925. Westwood (just outside Droitwich) was his country seat.

50 Robert Bruce Ward (c.1869–1943) married Lillie Partington (c.1867–1951), Oswald's sister, and so was in fact his brother-in-law.

51 Thomas Barclay (1853–1941): Lib. MP Blackburn Jan.–Dec. 1910; authority on economics and international law; knighted 1904.

52 Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm(1871–1954): businessman and social investigator, author of numerous books includingPoverty: A Study of Town Life (London: Macmillan, 1901)Google Scholar.

53 John Gordon Swift MacNeill (1849–1926): Protestant Irish Nat. MP South Donegal 1887–1918; lawyer, QC 1893; became Professor in Law at National University of Ireland 1909.

54 The author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745): Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1713–1745.

55 Esther Johnson (1681–1728): a close friend of Swift.

56 John Edward Walsh (1816–1869): Attorney General for Ireland 1866; Master of the Rolls in Ireland 1866–1869.

57 Robert Crawford Hawkin (1872–1939): called to the Bar 1904; an expert on international law.

58 A Liberal-aligned club founded in 1880.

59 Charles Solomon Henry (1860–1919): Australian merchant; Lib. MP Wellington 1906–1918; Coalition Lib. (Co. Lib.) MP The Wrekin 1918–1919; cr. baronet 1911; m. 1892 Julia Lewisohn (d. 1927), American heiress. Close friends of Lloyd George.

60 Margaret Lloyd George, née Owen (1866–1941): m. 1888; cr. Dame 1920.

61 Donald Charles Hugh Maclean (1864–1932): Lib. MP Bath 1906–1910, Peebles and Selkirk 1910–1918, Peebles and South Midlothian 1918–1922, Cornwall North 1929–1932; acting leader of Liberal party in Parliament 1918–1920; President of the Board of Education 1931–1932; m. 1907 Gwendolen Margaret Devitt (1880–1962).

62 Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith (1860–1926): Lib. (then Co. Lib.) MP Anglesey 1895–1918; Carmarthen 1923–1924; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1914–1915; m. 1892 Mary Owen (c.1864–1941).

63 Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881): Conservative Prime Minister 1868, 1874–1880; cr. Earl of Beaconsfield 1876.

64 Henry Devenish Harben (1874–1967): Con. candidate for Suffolk North-East 1900; Lib. candidate for Worcester 1906 and for Portsmouth December 1910; a wealthy funder of progressive causes, including the suffragettes, the Daily Herald and the New Statesman.

65 Hamar Greenwood (1870–1948): Lib. MP York 1906–Jan. 1910; Lib/Co. Lib. Sunderland Dec. 1910–1922; Constitutionalist/Con. Walthamstow East 1924–1929; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1919; Secretary for Overseas Trade 1919–1920; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1920–1922; cr. baronet 1915, Baron 1929, Viscount 1937.

66 Adeliza Florence Louise Hamar Greenwood (1885–1975).

67 Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (1873–1955): Lib. Unionist/Con. MP Birmingham South 1911–1918, Birmingham Sparkbrook 1918–1945; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1919–1921; First Lord of the Admiralty 1922–1924; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1924–1929, and Dominion Affairs 1925–1929; Secretary of State for India 1940–1945.

68 Clifford Brookes, Lib. candidate for Droitwich December 1910.

69 A.H. Spokes (1854–1922): Recorder of Reading; Lib. candidate for Marylebone Dec. 1910.

70 Edward Anthony Strauss (1862–1939): Lib. MP for the Abingdon division of Berkshire 1906–January 1910, Southwark West Dec. 1910–1918; Co. Lib. MP for Southwark North 1918–23; Lib. MP for Southwark North 1927–1929; and served again as a Liberal National 1931–1939.

71 George Crosfield Norris Nicholson (1884–1916); the only son of Charles Nicholson; Lib. candidate for Henley December 1910; served in the RFC during the First World War and attained the rank of Captain; killed in a flying accident in England.

72 A ‘gentleman's club’ formed in 1857.

73 George Houston Reid (1845–1918): Australian politician, premier of New South Wales 1894–1899; Prime Minister of Australia 1904–1905; Australian High Commissioner to the UK 1910–1916; Con. MP for St George, Hanover Square [Westminster St George's] 1916–1918.

74 Probably E.W. Roper of Christchurch, New Zealand; President of the New Zealand Naval League in 1908; involved in the English Speaking Union after 1918.

75 John Denton Pickstone French (1852–1925): General 1907, Field Marshal 1913; Inspector-General of Army 1907–1912; Chief of Imperial General Staff 1912–1914; Commander of the British Expeditionary Force 1914–1915; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1918–1921; cr. Viscount French 1916, Earl of Ypres 1922.

76 Francis Wallace Grenfell (1841–1925): General 1904, Field Marshal 1908; retired 1908; cr. Baron 1902.

77 Albert Bruce-Joy (1842–1924): sculptor, whose works included the sculpture of John Bright in Albert Square, Manchester.

78 William Thomson (1824–1907): Belfast-born mathematician and physicist; Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) 1851, President 1890–1895; cr. Baron Kelvin 1892.