Viscount Grey of Falloden. Born London. Foreign Secretary. Died Northumberland at his country seat.
He figures in one of the pivotal moments in the campaign for the vote for women. in 1905 Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney interrupted a Manchester rally to ask Sir Edward Grey and Winston Churchill, then MP for Oldham, if they believed women should have the right to vote. They were thrown out and jailed. Following this the suffragettes moved towards more radical, direct protest.
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Sir Edward Grey
Viscount Grey of Falloden, Sir Edward Grey, 1862 - 1933, Foreign Secretary, l...
Born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, second son of a wealthy man. Thrice Lord Mayor of London: 1397, 1406 and 1420 (actually four times but two were consecutive). Three times Master of the Mercers' C...
Person, Literature, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Theatre
Co-churchwarden at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1882.
President of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Minister of Transport, 1945-51. From Newham Story: "In 1915 Alfred Barnes, a socialist, won the presidency {of the Stratfor...
Radical. Born Stirlingshire, Scotland. Came to London in 1774. 1792 co-founded the London Corresponding Society, a group advocating wider suffrage and parliamentary reform. Presecuted for high ...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
