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… a vital influence. She and her three sisters grew up in a liberal and slightly bohemian environment in which art and …
Type: Biography
… to Parliament in January 1889, he generally supported the Liberal administrations of John Ballance and Richard Seddon …
Type: Biography
… was ennobled by his poetic vision; Thomson quotes liberally and appreciatively from translated waiata. Thomson …
Type: Biography
… if he was reactionary in his Māori policies, he was liberal in other causes. In the early provincial battles of …
Type: Biography
… development imperatives demanded the continuation of the Liberal policy. Allen was soon resigned to seeking a further …
Type: Biography
… minister to the proposed settlement. Rennie's more liberal views gave way to a vision of an exclusive Free …
Type: Biography
… minister (1852–55). In 1854 he entered Parliament as a Liberal, representing Beverley in Yorkshire, but lost his …
Type: Biography
… and ‘genius for organising'. Heenan's political views were liberal rather than Labour, and he prided himself on the …
Type: Biography
… university’s management, and successfully campaigned for a liberalisation of its disciplinary regulations. Williams …
Type: Biography
… a move that further emphasised their spaciousness and liberated rhythms. These developments were all the more …
Type: Biography
… years by persistent pessimism resulting from attacks by liberals and the failure of the wider church to embrace …
Type: Biography
… general election of that year he stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate. After a further staff appointment, at …
Type: Biography
… an unfailing courtesy. Ideologically he was inclined to a liberal outlook rather than a rigid adherence to party …
Type: Biography
… like Mackay's own parents, became minister of lands in the Liberal government in the 1890s. His battles for reform of …
Type: Biography
… Greece, then at Biberach in south-western Germany – until liberated by American forces. These were harrowing years, …
Type: Biography
… as absurd, votes for women as a subject for satire, and the Liberal land and income tax as dangerous. He sometimes …
Type: Biography
… where the conservative press criticised its support for Liberal policies. From 1908 to 1919 Scholefield was London …
Type: Biography
… after being deserted by her husband. Her admiration for the Liberal and then Labour parties was very evident to her … attacked his colleague George Gair for promoting the liberalisation of abortion; encouraged visits of US …
Type: Biography
… his association with James Carroll , a minister in the Liberal government since 1892 and minister of native affairs … was defeated in 1912. Because he remained faithful to the Liberal party, Ngata did not again attain cabinet office …
Type: Biography
… way the armed constables kept 'rust from the rifles by a liberal use of grease and oil'. They were living in damp …
Type: Biography