The Lord Chancellor, replying-to a question in the House of Lords, declared that so far as the Royal Courts of Justice were concerned, the charge and disgrace of shcltcr.ng men who ought to be serving the country could not ha laid there. Of the 206 u-uiers, messengers, etc., evc;y man c!ig:b!e "was serving- -ts to tne clerical staff, ho had introduced ten women, which, he understood, was a precedent in the history of the Law Courts, excepting in the reign of Chark-s 11., when a lady named Jliss Eleanor Gwynn was appointed to a highly-paid but not arduous post :n connection with the administration of the country. (Laughter.)
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9568, 26 January 1917, Page 5
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