| Main Performers | Rt. Hon. A J Balfour,
Mr Walter Long (Chairman of the London Conservative and Unionist Members of Parliament),
Sir George Hayter Chubb,
Lord Farquhar (President of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union),
Mr W Hayes Fisher - speakers |
| Set List | Patriotic and other songs:
'Rule Britannia' (Mr Ivor Forster, audience),
'National Anthem',
Welcome (Mr Walter Long),
Declaration from the Nonconformist Unionist Association against Home Rule (Sir George Hayter Chubb),
Speech (Mr Balfour),
Resolution - 'That this meeting of representative Conservative Unionists from the capital of the Empire thanks the Right Hon. A J Balfour for his address, and also thanks the Right Hon. Walter Long, the chairman of the London Conservative and Unionist Members of Parliament, for presiding at this meeting, and declares its unabated confidence in Mr Balfour, as leader of the party, and its earnest determination to work from this moment forward to secure the return of power of the Conservative and Unionist Party, in order to safeguard the social and commercial interests of the people and the integrity of the Empire' (Lord Farquhar - seconded, Mr G A Touche),
Speech (Mr W Hayes Fisher),
Concluding Remarks (Mr Balfour),
'For Auld Land Syne',
'National Anthem' |
| Performance Notes | "Over two hours before the arrival of Mr Balfour seige was laid to the doors of the hall. The applications for tickets had outnumbered the seats available by three to one, and it was stated that the officials of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union, the organisers of the meeting, had never before had so great a task in satidfying and denying demands for accommodation."
(The Times, 30 November 1910)
Seated on the platform were Sir F Banbury, Sir H Kimber, Sir W Bull, Mr William Mewburn, Mr F J Hughes, Dr Howard Barrett, Mr H Kinglsey Wood, Lord Farquhar (President of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union), Mr Alfred Lyttleton, Sir Alexander Aeland Hood, Mr H Chaplin, Sir G Fardell, Sir A Cripps KC, Lord Lytton, Lord Aldenham, Lord Oranmore and Browne, Lord Michelham, Sir J Dimsdale, Baron Percy de Worms.
Audience members included Maharajah Holkar and Major Hamilton.
The Electrophone Company installed their telecommunications device in the auditorium for this event so that journalists could listen to the speeches away from the Hall in the comfort of the Electrophone Company HQ. |