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...introduced in the Commons by Frank Briant, Liberal Member for Lambeth, would enable peeresses in their own right to sit in the House of Lords. Members of all parties, including the well-advertised Lady Astor, support the measure. The bill would affect 24 British peeresses, including the Duchess of Fife, the Countesses of Cromartie, Loudoun and Seafield, Countess Roberts, and Viscountesses Wolseley and Rhondda...
Seats for Fife, Cromartie, Loudoun, Seafield, Roberts, Wolseley, Rhondda, noble ladies in their own right...
...Harvard (Newhall, Coburn, Chapin, Barker); second, M. I. T. (Symonds, Bailey, Fife, Makepeace...
...Engineers took first second, fourth, fifth, and seventh places. Moreover Kirby, the first Ithacan to finish, at present holds the intercollegiate championship for the mile. The wearers of the Cardinal and Gray in today's bike will be captain Holt, Fricker, Bemis, Rooney, Parkinson, Howe, Keplinger, Duffy, Grossman, and Fife...
...classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back on a bye-election in Paisley. The principal Cabinet posts he has held: Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Gladstone...