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=== House Notes ===
nominated 1901.04.23<br />1905.05.09 The Treasurer reported the results of his circular to Fellows in arrears. It was resolved that the names of all Fellows over two years in arrears should be sent to the London Association for the Protection of Trade, with the exception of Miss Hussey, Revd. H.V. Mills and Mr W.D. Webster, who it was resolved should be struck off the list of Fellows.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Some of the early campaigners were socialists like the Unitarian Minister The Rev H.V. Mills, who persuaded Labour MPs to address local suffragette meetings. <br />...Rev Herbert V Mills, who had become the first Labour member of Westmorland County Council in 1892.<br />Around this time Mills also established a “colony” in Westmorland whose basic purpose was to show that it was possible to rehabilitate individuals who had fallen on difficult times by introducing them to work on the land. This venture received the endorsement of John Ruskin, an early socialist, pioneer of the arts and crafts movement and resident of nearby Coniston.<br /><br />Born Accrington, Lancashire; <br />Unitarian Minister, social reformer and founder of short-lived utopian community at Starnthwaite.<br />