WOMEN IN THE LORDS.
EXCLUSION REAFFIRMED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. June 28, The Committee of Privileges reheard the claim of Viscountess Rhondda to sit in the House of Lords as a peeress in her own right. The Lord Chancellor, on behalf of the majority of eight, outlining the reasons for rejecting the claim, said that the holder of a peerage who was a minor was not entitled to sit, but might grow entitled, A felon or a bankrupt might receive a pardon or discharge, but a female remained female until she died, and she was disqualified from exercising her peerage by her sex. Lord Haldane, on behalf of two dissentients, said the Sex Disqualification Removal Act operated, and entitled the claimant to a writ of summons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18130, 30 June 1922, Page 7
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