LADY ELECTIONEERING AGENTS.
In the account of the Barnstaple election given in the “ Daily News ” we read that on the polling day the Countess of Portsmouth (Lord Lymington’s mother) and her sister Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell, drove about tlie town all day, and after the result of the votes was made known addressed an immense meeting of the “ free and independent ” electors in the Music Hall. The Countess of Portsmouth thanked the electors for their great kindness to her son and also to herself. She had spent all day in driving about Barnstaple, and had received the greatest kindness and courtesy. She expressed gratification, not only that her son had been chosen as their representative hut that the Liberal cause had achieved such a victory. Lady Catherine Milne-Gas-kell spoke of the importance of the victory as a triumph of Liberal principles, and said that her husband was working for one of the Hidings in Yorkshire. She hoped that whether he sat for a borough or a county he would meet with the same kindness, the same warmth, and the same loyalty which had distinguished the reception of her brother at Barnstaple..”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2283, 12 July 1880, Page 3
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191LADY ELECTIONEERING AGENTS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2283, 12 July 1880, Page 3
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