LADY RHONDDA
CLAIM TO SIT IN HOUSE OF LORDS. REASONS FOR REJECTION. Australian end N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 28, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 27. The Committee on Privilege is rehearing the Rhondda- claim. The Lord Chancellor, on behalf of a majority of eight, in outlining the reason® for rejecting the claim, said that the holder of a peerage who is a minor is not entitled to a writ, but might grow entitled, and a felon or bankrupt might receive a pardon, but a female remained a female until she died. She was disqualified from exercising a peerage by her sex. Lord Haldane, on behalf of two dissentients, said that the Sex Disqualification Removal Act operated, and entitled the claimant to a writ of summons. A cable message received last month stated that Lady Rhondda’s claim to sit in the House of Lords as a peeress in her own right was rejected by the Committee on Privilege by 20 votes to 4.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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