The British State Telegraphs / A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy

by Hugo Richard Meyer

[148] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, April 15, 1890, p. 581 and following.

[149] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, July 31, 1890, p. 1,441.

[150] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, April 17, 1891, p. 851 and following.

[151] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, August 1, 1891, p. 1,059 and following.

[152] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, February 18, 1898, p. 1,109. S. Woods quotes as follows from the circular issued by the Fawcett Association in June, 1892: “Will you, in the event of being elected a Member of Parliament, support a motion for the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Post Office Service, such as was advocated by Earl Compton, and largely supported during the recent Session of the House of Commons?”

[153] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, June 14, 1892, p. 1,123 and following.

[154] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, June 20, 1892, p. 1,565 and following.

[155] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, August 28, 1893, p. 1,218.

[156] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, May 17, 1895, p. 1,455, Sir A. K. Rollit, one of the most aggressive champions of the demands of the civil servants.

[157] Who’s Who, 1903. Macdonald, J. A. M.; Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley, 1892 to 1895; Member of the London School Board for Marylebone since 1897; Education: Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities.