[PARNELL (Charles Stewart, 1846-1891, Irish Nationalist Leader, fighter for Home Rule)]

Secretarial letter signed with a 'PP' signature to Ernest Hart (1835-1898, Medical Journalist) saying that "the reply from the treasury having not yet come to hand, I think it better to postpone tomorrow's meeting of the Board till a later day of which due notice will be given ...", 1 side 8vo., House of Common's headed paper, 28th July

Hart was very active in the amendments of the Public Health and of the Medical Acts. His work on behalf of the British Medical Association is shown by the increase from 2000 to 19,000 in the number of members, and the growth of the British Medical Journal from 20 to 64 pages, during his editorship. From 1872 to 1897 he was chairman of the Associations Parliamentary Bill Committee.
Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician and one of the most powerful figures in the British House of Commons in the 1880s. The hung parliament of 1885 saw him hold the balance of power between William Gladstone's Liberals and Lord Salisbury's Conservatives. His power was one factor in Gladstone's adoption of Home Rule as the central tenet of the Liberal Party.

Item Date:  1884

Stock No:  39367      £165

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