Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George, having no choice, nominated for re-election the previous Speaker (who is always renominated) aristocratic Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy. He, by another custom, sat in compulsory "modesty" on an obscure Government back bench last week. Next the Clerk, still silent, swung his extended arm from Government to Opposition, pointed to Laborite Will Thome who promptly seconded the stereotyped nomination. It then became the duty of Nominator Sir George and Seconder Mr. Thorne to advance upon the modest Speaker designate and "drag him to the Chair...
Some Speakers have put up a good fight, have actually been dragged scuffling and kicking to the exalted Chair. But Captain Fitzroy is of the blood royal, proud of his bastard descent from a Stuart King. When Sir George and Mr. Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent...
...Cabinet. At Speaker Fitzroy's bidding the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...
...Great Britain's General Election, but 65 candidates automatically became members of the House of Commons last week when no other candidate appeared in any of their constituencies to make them fight. Thus popped back into the House were slim, aristocratic Speaker of the House Edward Algernon Fitzroy (proud of his Royal bastard ancestry) and Stanley Baldwin, pudgy, bumbling Conservative leader. Other lucky candidates made up the following skeleton House...
...Speaker is not empowered to wring necks or have them wrung. It was 20 years last week since any Speaker had had anyone thrown out of the House (in 1911 the late Mr. Speaker Gully had some Irish nationalist M. P.'s ejected). Last week, as Mr. Speaker Fitzroy hesitated to make history, John McGovern taunted, "You don't have to tell me when to sit down! I sit down when I please...