A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-GeneralHolt, Winifred
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A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General
Holt, Winifred
Fawcett, Henry, 1833-1884
Hill, Sir Roland, advocates parcel post, 271.
Hodding, Mrs., Fawcett’s letter to, 36.
Holland, evolution in, 96.
Home Rule, Fawcett opposes, 283.
Hooker, Sir Joseph, Fawcett on, 168.
Hope, Beresford, on Fawcett, 314.
Hopkins, Mr., his friendship with Fawcett, 31, 47-49.
House of Commons, the, Fawcett’s ambition to enter, 18, 19, 33, 36-38,
45, 46, 75, 82, 111, 124, 143-59;
Fawcett as a member of, 122, 125, 138, 149, 160-7, 174, 176, 188-92,
265, 299, 304;
Ladies’ gallery, 64;
mourns Fawcett’s loss, 313.
Housing Bills, Fawcett on, 236.
_Howe_, H.M.S., 9.
Hughes, Tom., introduces Fawcett to the House, 160.
Hunter, Sir Robert, as Solicitor to the Post Office, 266;
on Fawcett, xv, 191, 197, 262, 266.
Huxley, Professor, as a Radical, 124;
visits Fawcett, 89.
Ibbesley, Fawcett at, 205.
Iddesleigh, Lord, on Fawcett, 313.
Immigration, Fawcett on, 145.
Income Tax, Fawcett on, 231.
India, famine in, 236;
Fawcett’s interest in, 38, 166, 177, 217-27, 230, 233, 235-8, 242-6,
331;
gratitude to Fawcett in, 230, 245, 323-6.
Indian Council, Fawcett as member of, 252.
Institute of France, Fawcett as member of, 308.
Insurance, Fawcett on, 276.
Irish question, the, Fawcett on, 124, 167, 175, 282, 283.
Irish University Bill, the, 177-81.
Italian Unity, Fawcett’s interest in, 157.
James, Henry, on Trinity Hall Garden, 79.
Jesus College, Cambridge, 91.
Johnson, Dr., 90.
Jones, Richard, Whewell on, 92.
Keller, Helen, on her blindness, 65.
King’s College, Fawcett at, 18-21.
Knightsbridge, 123.
Kossuth, in London, 20.
Lambeth, Fawcett’s garden in, 137.
Lancashire love of freedom, 102.
Land question, Fawcett on the, 120, 169, 171.
_Lardner’s Encyclopædia_, 47.
Lark, Mrs., 160.
Layard, Sir A. H., contests Southwark, 148-50.
Leeds, colliery near, 118.
Lee-Warner, Sir William, on Fawcett, xv, 245, 256.
Lefevre, Shaw. _See_ Lord Eversley.
Lewis, Harvey, Fawcett on, 168.
Lewendon, G., 319.
Liberal Party, the, Fawcett on, 176, 201, 231.
Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of, 130;
compared with Fawcett, 76, 77, 102, 103, 245, 259, 260;
Fawcett’s admiration of, 76, 102.
Lincoln’s Inn, Fawcett studies at, 33, 75.
Liverpool, election at, 300;
postal work in, 258.
London, Fawcett in, 17, 19-21, 33, 137, 197, 235, 332;
Fawcett on society in, 89, 90.
Longford, Fawcett family at, 7, 8, 39, 48.
Longton, manor of, 195, 196.
Louise, Princess, dowry of, 139.
Lytton, Bulwer, on the Westminster Debating Society, 34.
Macaulay, Lord, as an orator, 31.
M‘Carthy, Justin, on Fawcett, 313.
Macmillan, publisher, his friendship with Fawcett, 104.
_Macmillan’s Magazine_, Fawcett’s contributions to, 94, 104, 151.
Mahomet, 17.
Maine, Sir Henry, master of Trinity Hall, 228.
Malta, 242.
Manchester, Fawcett at, 95;
postal conditions in, 258.
Manners, Lord John, as Postmaster-General, 253, 271;
on Fawcett, 314.
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