| Main Performers | Miss Ethelmay Holbrook - vocal,
Duke of Norfolk,
Mr Hayes Fisher,
Mr Wyndham MP,
Mr Balfour (Primrose League Grand Master) - speakers |
| Secondary Performers | Miss Balfour (President of the Ladies' Grand Council) - speaker,
Mr H L Balfour - organ |
| Set List | Organ Recital (Mr H L Balfour),
Procession,
'March' from Judas Maccabaeus, Handel,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Miss Ethelmay Holbrook - first two verses),
Presentation of Prize Banners (Miss Balfour),
Address (Mr Balfour),
Speech and Resolution - 'That this meeting of the Primrose League in Grand Habitation assembled records its emphatic protest against the Education Bill now before the House of Commons. It condemns proposals which restrict, where they do not abolish, the rights of English parents to choose the religion in which their children are to be educated, and calles upon habitations throughout the country to resist a measure which attacks the civil and religious liberties of the English people and endangers the maintenance of religion, the first principle which the Primrose League was founded to defend.' (Mr Wyndham MP),
Resolution Seconded (Mr Hayes Fisher),
Vote of Thanks (Duke of Norfolk, Sir Jospeh Dimsdale),
Thanks (Mr Balfour) |
| Performance Notes | Between 7,000 and 8,000 persons were present.
On the stage were the Duke of Norfolk (Primrose League Chancellor), Mr George Wyndham MP, Sir F Dixon-Hartland MP (Primrose League Treasurer), Mr W Hayes Fisher, Mr Walter Emden (Primrose League Vice-Chairman), Mr G Lane Fox (Primrose League Vice-Chairman), Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Lord Glenesk, Lord Jersey, Lord Churchill, Lord Kinoull, Lord Willoughby De Eresby MP, Lady Blthyswood, Lady Dundonald, Lady Orford, Lord Colchester, Lord Leconfield, Lady Crawford, Lady Abinger, Lady Rayleight, Lady St. Helier, Sir R Penrose-Fitzgerlad, Lady Borthwick, Lady Knighley of Fawsley, Lady Dimsdale, Hon. Mrs Brodrick, Lady Hardman, Mr W F D Smith MP, Mr S Roberts MP, Sir Howard Vincent MP, Sir E Sassoon MP, Sir H Aubrey-Fletcher MP, Lady Aubrey-Fletcher, Mr Hambro MP, Mrs Hambro, Mr Gibbs MP, Sir E Flower, Sir James Bailey, Sir Mark Stewart, Sir R T Hermon Hodge, Sir J F L Rolleston, Sir B Cohen, Mr Edward Terry, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Sir Donald Robertson, Sir John Jackson, Mr Agg-Gardner, Sir S and Lady Smuel, Sir F annd Lady Elridge, Lady Musgrave, Lady Grantham, Colonel Haig, Mr A E Southall, Mr J Beraston, Lieutenant-General Green WIlkinson, Mr W Halsted Frith, Colonel and Mrs Lucas, Captain J R B Newman, Lady Colmb, Sir Joseph and Lady Lawrence, Sir T R Dewar, Sir A Trandell and Mr H Percy Harris.
Champion banners were presented to the Gainsborough Habitation (Lincolnshire), Eastbourne Habitation, and the London banner to St. George's, Hanover Square Habitation.
Balfour's speech touched upon, the Government and the Irish Party; South Africa; The Education Bill - Home Rule. |