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Aberdeen United Trades Council, 19 Abraham, William, 989, 104, 110, 136 Adams, William G. S., 21112 Addison, Christopher, 1956 AE (George William Russell), 160 Aero Cleaners Limited, 903 Airlie, Lady, 53 Albert, Prince, 125 Allerton, Lord, 77 Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives, 1001, 134 Amalgamated Musicians Union, 345 Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers (City of London Womens section), 31 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 81, 1713, 198 Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, 1201, 128 Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers, 32 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 25, 44, 539, 623, 1201, 128 Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen of the River Thames, 90, 111, 145, 193 Amalgamated Weavers Association, 13940 Americas Cup Race, 12 Amulree, Lord, see Mackenzie, William W. Anglo-Spanish Society, 237 Arbitration Act 1934,233 Ardee, Lord, 44 Ardee, Lady Aileen, ne Quin, 44 Askwith, Alice Browning (GRAs sister), 3, 21, 42, 44, 86, 88, 1535, 163, 233

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Askwith, Betty Ellen, 3, 3940, 42, 86, 93, 1067, 1257, 140, 148, 1525, 185, 215, 223, 228, 2356 Askwith, Charles Hamilton (GRAs brother), 3, 910 Askwith, Elizabeth, ne Ranken (GRAs mother), 1, 3, 21, 42, 44, 79, 90, 109, 155, 163 Askwith, Ellen, ne Peel, 11, 3945, 47, 503, 627, 71, 73, 7780, 846, 902, 98100, 1034, 10610, 1135, 118, 1235, 140, 195, 206, 2156, 2245, 227, 235 Archie wounded, 181 Canadian visit, 14851 care for Elizabeth Askwith 163 care for her grandchildren, 2367 Dublin strike 1913, 159161 French and Algerian holiday, 1525 Malta, 2312 obtains invitation to Lloyd Georges breakfast, 202 support of National Party and National Citizens Union, 21820 takes action over Georges removal from office 21112 takes George on a cure, 2334 war work, 1656, 1845, 203, 207 work for Institut Franais, 2234 Askwith, George Ranken, 1st Baron appointed Assistant Secretary of the Railway Department, 47 appointed Comptroller General of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department, 7882

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The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 18611942 recommended for a CB, 889 relationship with Buxton, 945, 1612 removal from office and resignation, 21013 re-organization of the Labour Department 190911, 8890, 1312, 156 rowing, 4, 107 shooting, 61, 678, 79, 90, 1067, 140, 152, 166, 182, 185, 1967, 220, 2356 smoking, 119 trade boards, 845 trade exhibition in Brussels, 1910, 93 Venezuelan Arbitration Tribunal, 213 views on industrial unrest, 11516, 127, 1623 views on sweating, 635 war appointed chairman of Committee on Production, 170 chairman of Building Labour Committee, 208 creation of Ministry of Labour, 1967 refuses to serve on Cabinet Coordination Committee, 2045 relations with John Hodge, 200 views on compulsory arbitration, 177 views on lack of coordination between departments, 168, 1956, 2013, 206 views on profiteering, 172 witness before the Commission on Royal Commission on Trade Disputes and Trade Combinations, 256 witness before the Select Committee on Home Work, 1906, 334 work for the YMCA, 223 Askwith, Henry Francis (GRAs brother), 3, 9, 42, 44 Askwith, John Browning (GRAs brother), 3, 9, 42, 44, 233 Askwith, Margaret Elizabeth, see Kennedy, Margaret Askwith, Archdeacon W. H., 44, 109 Askwith, William Bayne (GRAs brother), 3, 910 Askwith, William Harrison (GRAs father), 1, 3, 21, 109, 163

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appointed Comptroller General of the Patent Office, 778 birth, 1 birth of Betty and her christening, 86, 889 breakdown in health, 1525, 2334 business ventures, 1415, 903, 2279, 2367 Canadian visit 1912, 14950 collecting fines arts, 43 concern for womens rights, 222 copyright, 6775, 845, 92, 94 descriptions of Askwith conciliating, 119 education , 34 fathers death, 21 flying, 235 friendship with the Asquiths, 2067 grandchildren, 236 honorary degrees, 148, 224, 235 interest in international peace, 234 interest in liquor licensing laws, 2345 interest in new inventions, 20, 77, 228 Irish debates 19201,2247 knighthood, 1245 labour exchanges defends them against criticism, 934 views on, 21718 visit to Germany, 1909, 89 visit to Ireland, 1910, 93 last illness and death,2367 legal practice, 38 letters to the Times, 1919, 21618 Malta, 1931, 2303 marriage, 3945, 61 Marshall Foch Appeal Committee, 235 Mayor of Saint Ives, 161 mothers death, 163 motoring, 110, 148, 152, 155, 195 New Guinea and Australia, 910 opinion on Conciliation Act, 1896, 17 opinion on Lemieux Act, 1502 opinion on Trade Disputes Act, 1906, 26 peerage, 2156 Pigott case, 1011 political affiliations, 21820 president of Institute of Arbitrators, 233 promotion of greyhound racing, 22930 Railway Department, 539, 623, 778 Rand strike, 158

Index Askwith family residences 5 Cadogan Gardens, 216, 224, 228, 236 Government House, Waltham Abbey, 1, 3 12 Hans Crescent, 90, 195, 216 leasehold taken out, 43 guests at, 66, 80, 845, 92, 104, 1089, 1434, 147, 1523, 163, 166, 181, 207 How, the, 89, 901, 109, 117, 129, 156, 165, 181, 195 leasehold taken out, 43, 667 family and social life at, 77, 80, 85, 93, 1067, 168, 1845 Oak Knoll, Sunningdale, 203, 207, 212, 216, 228 119 St Georges Square, Pimlico, 3, 21, 42, 90, 163 Street Ashton, Rugby, 222, 229, 236 Asquith, Henry Herbert, 10, 65, 82, 84, 91, 94, 121, 125, 128, 131, 1427, 152, 165, 172, 176, 178, 182, 1946, 2067, 212, 218, 224 Asquith, Margot, 61, 65, 115, 1434, 152, 176, 2067 Associated Coal Owners of Scotland, 108 Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, 55 Association Littraire Artistique Internationale, 68 Association of Independent Unionist Peers, 2256 Association of Master Lightermen and Barge Owners, 192, 215

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The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 18611942 Clarke, Sir Edward, 146 Claughton, Gilbert, 123 Clegg, Hugh, 157, 159 Cleveland, President, 213 Clynes, J. R., 137, 159, 165, 215 Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912, 1434 Cohen, Arthur, 25 Collisons Free Labour Association, 114 Committee on Production, 1705, 1767, 17980, 190, 210, 217 reconstitution, 199201 war bonuses 184, 1889, 1912, 1989 Conciliation Act, 1816, 1617, 18 Conservative Party, 84 copyright, 6775, 85, 92, 94 Copyright Act, 1842, 68 Copyright Act, 1911, 75 Corfield, Tony, 213 cotton industry, 99101, 108, 13940, 175, 182, 20910 Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association, 215 Coutts, Francis Money, 5th Baron Laytmer, 1314, 52, 66, 91 Craigie, R. L., 68, 71, 73 Crewe, Lord, 6970 Croft, Henry Page, 218 Cummings, David, 812, 109, 117, 152, 208, 215 Curran, Peter, 81 Curzon, Lord, 196 Cutler, Edward, 85 Cutlers Feast, Sheffield, 127 Daily News Sweated Industries Exhibition, 1906, 634 Dangerfield, George, 112, 1367 Darling, Charles John, 85 Davidson, J. T., 213 Dawes, A. J., 231 De Martens, Frederic, 22 De Ramsay, William Henry Fellows, 2nd Baron, 156 De Salis, Comte, 67, 71, 745, 91, 231 De Valera, Eamon, 224, 226 Deakin, Alfred, 32 Denbigh, Lord, 225

Buxton, Sydney, 92, 94, 98100, 1045, 113, 11723, 125, 1337, 142, 1445, 147, 1612 Buxton, Mildred A., 118 Cabinet Committee on Industrial Unrest, 1445, 152 Cabinet Coordination Committee for Labour Disputes, 2046 Cadbury, George, 63 Cambon, Jules, 701, 73 Cambrian Combine Workmens Committee, 105 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., 65 Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, see Lemieux Act Carrington, Lady, 1245, 155 Carrington, Lord, 44, 125, 155 carters, 4852, 115, 120, 123 Cassel, Sir Ernest, 207 Cavendish Club, Bristol, 1913, 1623 Cazalet, William Marshall, 156 Cefn Park, Wrexham, 39, 42 Central Committee on Womens Employment, 1656, 184 Central Munitions Labour Supply Committee, 183, 189 Chamberlain, Austin, 121, 152 Chamberlain, Ivy, 152, 166, 225 Chamberlain, Joseph, 11 Chamberlain, Neville, 201 Chamberlain, Ze, 152 Chandler, F., 136 Chapman, J. M., 90 Charles, Rodger, 137 Cheltenham Ladies College, 222 Chief Industrial Commissioners Department, 156, 177, 17980, 184, 198, 202, 205, 20810 Child, Margaret Villiers, Countess of Jersey, 113 Churchill, Clementine, ne Hozier, 53, 656, 80, 92 Churchill, Winston, 53, 58, 656, 72, 74, 7780, 83, 85, 879, 912, 924, 1035, 113,117,134, 155, 158, 2025, 213, 235 Clark, W. H., 55

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Index Derbyshire Miners Union, 21 Devonport, Lord, 55, 1467 Dilke, Sir Charles, 1112, 256, 30, 32, 623, 65, 80, 84, 92, 1067 Dilke, Emilia, 32, 61 disputes Belfast, 1907, 4752 Birmingham and Walsall saddlers, 1668 boilermakers, 1910, 1012 boilermakers, 1916, 1823 Bolton newspaper industry, 30 boot and shoe trade, 302 Brechin jute trade, 38 Camden town mineral water works, 110 Clyde dispute, 1712, 1812, 1858 cotton operatives, 1918, 20910 cotton weavers, 1912, 13940 dockers, 191516, 1913 Dublin transport strike, 158161 Dundee, 1911, 129 Edmonton cartridge tube makers, 30 Electrical industry, 205 Engine-keepers, Scottish collieries, 108 Fern Mill, 1910, 1001, 110 Glasgow dockers, 1912, 1401 Grimsby dock labourers, 28 High Wycombe furniture industry, 1914, 1634 Huddersfield woollen mills, 99 Hull transport workers strike, 1911, 11215 Leeds corporation workers, 162 Leeds tramway workers, 1911, 117 Leith dockers, 1913, 158 Liverpool tramway workers, 1234 London building industry, 164 London compositors, 278 London firemen, 208 London omnibus employees, 1913, 158 London omnibus and tramway workers, 1918, 207 Manchester carters, 118123 Manchester newspaper industry, 38 Manchester tramway workers, 2930 Manchester transport workers, 1911, 115 Midlands, 1913, 1578 miners 1912, 1414 Morley trade, 1913, 156

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music hall artistes, 348, 52 Newcastle and Gateshead gas workers, 29 Newmilns lace workers, 1920 Newport, 134 North Eastern Railway dispute, 1897, 18 Northumberland miners, 1910, 979 Nottingham lace trade, 323 Port of London, 191112, 11719, 1345, 1457 railways, 1911, 1212, 1279 Royal Arsenal, 165 Saint Austell china clay workers, 158 Scottish building industry, 162, 181, 1934 Scottish miners, 1909, 879 Scottish miners, 1915, 179 Shirebrook Colliery, Derbyshire, 20 South Wales miners, 190910, 867, 989, 1026, 110 South Wales miners, 191516, 1779, 188 Southampton shipbuilding, 1911, 109 Tamworth painters, 289 watermen, 1909, 90 Welsh tinplate workers, 29 Dock Strike, 1889, 15, 17 Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union, 111, 183, 193 dockers, 4852, 112, 120, 1401, 158, 1913 Dormy House, Sunningdale, 1956 Dove, J. Maury, 14 drinking clubs, 2345 Du Cane, Sir John, 2312 Duncan, Charles, 183, 190 Duncan, Harold M., 14, 73, 88, 902, 106, 145, 150 Dunraven, Lord, 1213, 14, 42, 44, 523, 125, 181, 2245 Dunraven Castle, 125, 161 Dysart, Lord, 106

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Elvaston Castle, 67, 125 Emmott, A. E., 656 Emmott, Mary Gertrude, 656, 92 engineering, 1713 Engineering Employers Federation, 173, 202 Fair Wages Advisory Committee, 85, 95 Fairlawne, 156 Fay, Sam, 57 Falmouth, Lord, 148, 152, 181 Federation of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, 1516, 89 Federation of Master Cotton Spinners Associations, 1001, 134 Fenwick, Billy, 2067 Fenwick, Charles, 136 Fenwick, George (Ellens brother-in-law), 901 Fenwick, Mary, ne Palmer (Ellens sister), 42, 612, 902, 206, 211 Fenwick, Roddy, 92 Foche, Marshall, 235 Foster, Arnold, 31 Fox, Albert, 55 Fox, Alice T., ne Raikes, 44, 656 Fox, Arthur Wilson, 201, 2930, 35, 38, 656, 78, 88 Frederick, Sir Charles, 124 Fry, Sir Edward, 28 Gainsford, Lord, 207 Gallacher, William, 1723 gasworkers, 29 Gasworkers and General Labourers Union, 159 Geddes, Sir Auckland, 204 Gee, Alderman, 48 General Federation of Trade Unions, 36, 47, 81 General Railway Workers Union, 1201, 128 George V, 124, 1478, 156, 220 George, D. Lloyd, 356, 38, 47, 557, 623, 65, 79, 94, 110, 113, 1223, 142, 145, 172, 174, 176, 194, 2001, 205, 20910, 21213, 2168, 226 handling of Welsh miners strike, 1779 the Clyde, 1857 George, Margaret, 92, 113, 202 George, Megan, 92

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Index Hardesson, Sir Alexander, 77 Hardie, Keir, 19, 92, 104 Hargreave, Elizabeth Browning, ne Bayne (GRAs grandmother), 1, 3 Hargreave, Oliver, 1, 3 Harrel, Sir David, 180, 200 Harrington, Lord, 67, 91, 125 Harrison, Benjamin, 23 Hart, Sir Robert, 66, 80 Hartshorn, Vernon, 144 Harvey, W. E., 110 Healy, Thersites M., 160 Heberden, Charles Butler, 148 Henderson, Arthur, 137, 1746, 183, 187, 1957, 199201, 220 Hinchingbrooke, 156 Hodge, John, 19720 Hopwood, Sir Francis, 77, 170, 181 Horne, Sir Robert, 21213 hosiery trade, 15 Houlder Bros, 134 House of Lords Select Committee on Sweating, 1213 Howe, George, 1001 Hozier, Lady Blanche, 53, 65 Hugo, Victor, 68 Hunter, Graeme, 19 industrial agreements, 1357 Industrial Courts Act, 1919, 138 Industrial Courts Amendment Bill, 227 Industrial Council, 108, 127, 1318, 142, 152 Institut Franais, 2234, 237 Institute of Arbitrators, 233 Institute of Patentees, 228, 236 International Copyright Union, 68 Invercauld House, 220 Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 15861 James, Henry, Lord James of Hereford, 1011, 13, 14, 15, 16,18, 42, 44, 61, 66, 79, 90, 107, 11920, 180 Jarvis, Constance, 66, 224 Johnston, Thomas, 50 Jones, William, 80 jute trade, 38

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Mabon, see Abraham, William Macara, Charles, Sir, 20, 10710, 117, 131, 134 MacArthur, Mary, 30, 63, 92, 183, 220 MacDonald, Mary, 63, 166 Macdonald, Ramsay, 122, 128, 175 MacDonnell, Antony, 1st Baron MacDonnell, 4752, 91 Macguire, Julia, ne Peel, 181 Mackenzie, William W., 1st Baron Amulree, 175, 180, 199200, 2346 MacLeod, F. H., 18, 36, 52, 81, 162 Mckerrell, T., 216 Macmillan, Harold, 228 Malta Royal Commission, 2303 Manchester Daily Mail, 38 Mann, Thomas, 11114, 1234, 129, 13940 Manor and Liberty of the Savoy, 234 Markham, Violet M., 148, 166 Marlborough College, 34, 44 Marsh Court, 166, 182 Mary, Princess, 125 Mary, Queen, 125, 220 Master Printers and Allied Trades Association, 278 Maugham, Somerset, 36 Mawdsley, James, 136 Maxwell, Louise, 66 Meggernie Castle, 67 Mereworth Castle, 152, 181 Middle Class Union, see National Citizens Union Midland Employers Federation, 157 Midland Railway, 48, 52, 58 Midleton, Lord, 166, 181, 196, 206, 211, 216, 2256 Midleton, Madeleine, 166, 181, 196 Mifsud, Sir Ugo, 232 Milner, Lord, 196, 200 Mill, John Stuart, 11, 32 miners, 201, 869, 979, 1026, 108, 139, 1414, 1779, 188 Miners Federation of Great Britain, 878, 978, 1056, 139, 1413, 175, 177 Mining Association of Great Britain, 159

Nash, Vaughan, 26 National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association, 163 National Amalgamated Union of Labour, 1834 National Anti-Sweating League, 63, 84 National Association of Theatrical Employees, 345 National Association of Trade Protection Societies, 227 National Citizens Union, 21920, 227, 234 National Federation of Building Trade Employers, 164 National Federation of Women Workers, 1634, 183 National Greyhound Racing Association, 22930 National Industrial Conference, 137 National Insurance Act, 94 National Party, 21820 National Relief Fund, 165 National Seamens and Firemens Union, 111, 146 National Society of Operative Printers Assistants, 30, 38

Index National Transport Workers Federation, 11112, 11719, 123, 1457, 160, 207 National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1516, 301, 89 National Union of Corporation Workers, 208 National Union of Dock Labourers, 489, 146, 158 National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers, 28, 1834 National Union of Railwaymen, 197 New Guinea, 9 New South Wales, Australia, 9 Newman, John Pretyman, 21920 Newmilns and District Textile Workers Union and Friendly Society, 19 North-East Master Cotton Spinners and ManufacturersAssociation, 140, 182 North Eastern Railway, 18, 53, 623 Nunburnholme, Lord, 114 Nunburnholme, Marjorie, 114, 236 OConnor, T. P., 36, 85 Operative Cotton Spinners Amalgamation, 182 Osterley Park, 113, 115 Orbell, Harry, 147 Osterrieth, Dr Albert, 74, 85 painters, 289 Palmer, Milly (Ellens aunt), 39, 42 Palmer, Sir Roger (Ellens uncle), 39, 42, 44, 923 Parnell, Stewart, 10 Payne, Walter, 35 Peel, Lady Agnes (wife of George Peel), 80, 155 Peel, Archibald (Ellens father), 39, 44, 92 Peel, Arthur, 1st Viscount (Ellens cousin), 80, 93, 10910, 125, 152 Peel, Ethel (Ellens half-sister), 67 Peel, George (Ellens cousin), 80, 155 Peel, Lady Georgina, ne Russell (Ellens stepmother), 39, 44 Peel, Jonathan (Ellens grandfather), 39 Peel, Mary Ellen, ne Peel (Ellens mother), 39 Peel, Maurice, 44

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saddlers, 1668 St Hildas College, Oxford, 222 St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Mayor of, 161 Salisbury, Lord, 226 Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of, 213 Sandwich, Lord, see Montagu, Edward George Sankey, Vixcount, 233 Scotland, National Building Code of, 194, 215 Scottish Miners Federation, 87 Schomberg, Robert, 22 Scratchley, Sir Peter, 910 seamen, 11113 Selbourner, Earl of, 225 Select Committee on Home Work, 1906, 334 Sexton, James, 49, 51 Shackleton, Sir David, 256, 82, 100, 124, 191, 197, 2004, 207, 20913 Shaftesbury, Lord, 48, 501 Shaw, Joseph, 10910 Shipbuilding Employers Federation, 102, 215 shipbuilding industry, 15, 62, 7891, 1012, 109, 172, 199 Shipping Federation, 48, 102, 11112, 129 Shirebrook Colliery, Derbyshire, 201 Sloan, Isabel, 1634, 216 Smith, Sir Hubert Llewellyn, 17, 18, 19, 26, 30, 55, 578, 72, 74, 778, 80, 824, 912, 98,110, 1213, 133, 142, 162, 176,195, 197 Smillie, Robert, 878, 97, 99, 110, 118, 1434, 220 Snowden, Lord, 234 Sorgue, Madame, 114 South Wales Miners Federation, 98, 102, 105, 188 Stamfordham, Lord, 213 Stanley, J. C., 81 Steadman, William Charles, 35 Steel Ingot Makers Association, 29 Stoll, Sir Oswald, 35 Strickland, Lord, 2303, 236 Studt, Konrad von, 71, 73 Surtees, Herbert Conyers, 65 Sweated Industries Exhibition, 1906, 634

Index Webb, Sidney (later Lord Passfield), 25, 32, 823, 92, 230 Webster, Sir Richard, 23 West, Cornwallis, 113 Wilson, Havelock, 11112, 114 Wilson, Horace J., 104, 118, 123, 133, 152, 160, 170, 20910, 212 Wood, MacKinnon, 145 Woollen and Worsted Trades Federation, 191 woollen industry, 99, 168, 175, 1901 Womens Industrial Council, 63 Womens Trade Union League, 30, 32 women workers, 301, 110, 1634, 183, 18990, 207 Workers Union, 157, 1834, 1901 Worth Park, 91, 125, 161 Yapp, Sir Peter, 223 Young Mens Christian Association, 184, 207, 2223

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