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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Mary Ada Pickford, Jackie Forster, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Wycombe Abbey, Penelope Fitzgerald, Joan Riviere, Rachael Stirling, Kathy Wilkes, Eve Best, Sally Phillips, Molly Hide, India Knight, Lorraine Copeland, Polly Stenham, Elsie Bowerman, Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, Judith Chaplin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hon. Mary Ada Pickford CBE (5 July 1884 6 March 1934) was a British politician, industrialist and historian. After working to support her party over several years, she was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1931, and specialised in Indian issues; she also used her knowledge of the factory system gained while working as an inspector during the First World War to speak about employment issues. Pickford supported her constituency through the depression of the 1930s but died suddenly of pneumonia at the age of 49. Pickford was the daughter of William Pickford who was then a leading barrister on the Northern circuit. William Pickford went on to rise through the profession of law, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1893, a Recorder from 1901 and a Judge of the High Court of Justice in 1907. In 1914 he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division from 1918. William Pickford received a peerage as Baron Sterndale in November 1918 (from which Mary Pickford received the title 'the Honourable') and he served as Master of the Rolls from 1919 until his death in 1923. Her mother Alice (née Brooke), died only two months after her birth. Mary Pickford attended Wycombe Abbey School, under Miss Frances Dove. In the summer of 1904 at the age of 19 she was presented at Court as a débutante, and she also escorted her father at social events for the judiciary...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24866496 ... Read more

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HB NODJ, 1935, 1st edition, Interior Nice, Tight Clean some Fox & few tiny dog ear pgs & few tiny stains, ... Read more