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
Post Office, annuities, 277;
employment of women in, 256-8, 289;
Fawcett’s first speech on, 162;
Fawcett’s wish to employ the blind in, 70;
memorial to Fawcett, 323;
money orders, 275;
parcel post, 271-3;
savings bank, the, 257, 271, 275, 282;
telegraph service, 271, 277, 278, 282;
telephone service, 278, 308.
Privy Seal, Fawcett on the, 198.
Pryne, Professor, Fawcett succeeds, 105.
_Punch_ on Henry Fawcett, 233, 234, 241, 242, 279-81, 328.
_Quarterly Review_, quoted, 14.
Queenwood College, Fawcett at, 9-18, 31.
Quoits, Fawcett plays, 27.
Radical Club, the, Fawcett founds, 138.
—— party, Fawcett as a member of the, 34, 83, 105, 124, 138, 153, 161,
165, 166, 174-81.
Railways, Royal Commission on, 271.
Reed, J., evidence of, 191.
Reform Bills, Liberal and Conservative, 162-4;
rejoicings in 1832, 3, 4.
—— Club, Fawcett as member of the, 127.
Religious restrictions, Fawcett advocates removal of, 148, 174, 177-9.
Republican Club, Fawcett founds the, 138, 139, 281.
Ricardo, Fawcett on, 114.
Riding, Fawcett’s love of, viii, 59, 60, 68, 229.
Ritchie, Lady, on Thackeray and Fawcett, xv, 128.
Roller-skating, Fawcett tries, 171.
Rottingdean, Fawcett at, 57.
Rowing, Fawcett’s love of, 68, 85, 262, 309.
Royal Normal College for the Blind, Campbell’s work at the, 66;
Fawcett memorials in, 323, 332.
Royal Society, Fawcett a Fellow of the, 308.
Rumbold, farm-servant, 297.
Ruskin, John, 308;
challenges Fawcett, 208.
Russell, Lord John, his Reform Bill, 162-4;
resignation of, 161.
Russian action in Turkey, 241-3.
Salisbury, dean of, 21;
Fawcett in, 52, 59, 61, 77, 81, 97, 204, 251, 270, 297-9, 303, 310;
Fawcett family at, 3-8, 39, 43, 98, 298;
marquis of, on India, 233;
rejoices over Reform Bill, 4;
statue of Fawcett in, 324, 334.
Salt, Fawcett’s love of, 140.
_Saturday Review_, on Fawcett, 231.
Schurz, Carl, in America, 20.
Scott, Mr. Justice, on India, 223.
Scovell, contests Southwark, 148-50.
Serpentine, skating on the, 58.
Seward, Stephen meets, 102.
Seymour, Danby, 160.
Shakespeare, quoted, 17, 46.
Short, John, 320.
Sidgwick, professor, on Mill, 101.
Skating, Fawcett’s love of, 58, 68, 88, 171, 192, 193, 210.
Slavery, abolition of, 5, 76, 77, 120, 157.
Smith, Hamblin, his arithmetic, 104;
Miss M‘Cleod, xv.
Socialism, Fawcett on state, 120.
Social Science Association at Bradford, 145.
Society of Arts, advocates parcel post, 271.
Somerset House, Fawcett at, 19.
Sopp, Mr., schoolmaster, 79.
Southey, Robert, Fawcett quotes, 50.
Southwark, Fawcett contests, 146-50.
_Spectator, The_, 239;
on Hooker, 168.
Spencer, Herbert, as a Radical, 124.
Stanley, Lord, interviewed by Fawcett, 145.
Staten Island, Garibaldi in, 20.
Steam, Fawcett on the powers of, 14-17.
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