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...Viscountess Rhondda has led the fight for the admission of peeresses to the Lords. The case was referred to the Privileges Committee of the Commons. She claimed a seat on the Sex Disqualification Act of 1919, which provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex from the exercise of any public function. The Committee, rejecting the plea, said that a seat in the Lords was an "honor" and not a "public function." Briant's bill may lead to the establishment of "The House of Lords and Ladies...
...Died. Viscountess Morley, 83, widow of Viscount John Morley (who died two months ago) at Wimbledon, England, in her sleep. Her existence was not generally known. There is no mention of her in standard reference works, and she never went into Society. She took no part in his public activities and never went to Court. It is said that when Lord Morley met her she was unable, under English law, to procure a divorce from her then husband, and he (Lord Morley) was therefore unable to make her his legal wife until several years later...
...Viscountess Grey of Fallodon has written another book.* Reviewers mention the work as " a volume of essays neither particularly attractive nor commendable from a literary point of view and below her previous books." Viscountess Grey was born Pamela Genevieve Adelaide Wyndham, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Percy Wyndham. In 1895 she married the first Baron Glenconner and was left a widow in 1920 with three sons and a daughter. In 1922 she married Viscount Grey of Fallodon, formerly Sir Edward Grey, quondam Foreign Minister and British Ambassador to the U. S. Lady Grey is a Fellow of the Eoyal...