Liberal Democrat MP Daisy Cooper has introduced a bill calling for all private members clubs, including the Garrick Club in London, to immediately abolish archaic rules that stop women joining them.
Cherie Blair, who is herself a barrister, joined over 300 lawyers in calling for the Garrick Club to drop its outrageous ban on admitting female members ahead of the club s 190th anniversary today.
The jury took only a few seconds to confer, not even bothering to leave the packed Court of Common Pleas in London where they had been sitting all day. Then the foreman said to the judge: My lord, we are agreed in a verdict it is for the Defendant. This was the cue for loud bursts of applause and shouts of Good old Melbourne .
No less a person than the Prime Minister, the handsome Lord Melbourne, had been dramatically cleared of having criminal intercourse with a married woman, the alluring Caroline Norton.
Her aggrieved husband, George, had made the accusation in June 1836. London society buzzed with excitement, predictions, lamentations, exultations or a combination of all these emotions.