354 



INDEX. 



NATIONAL Agricultural Labourers' 

 Union, 34, 38, 42, 50, 51, 155, 

 195, 217, 250, 322, 323 

 Conference, 1915, 235, 242 

 Decline of, 69, 70 

 Increased membership, 1890, 



99 

 Trade Union grant to, 198 



National Agricultural Labourers' 

 and Rural Workers' Union, 

 179, 182 



National Farmers' Union, 211, 291 



National Insurance Act, 1911, 182 



National Land and Home League, 

 165, 185, 200 



National Union of Railwayoien, 

 Ormskirk Branch, 197 



National Unions, 1872, 38 



Nationalisation of Land, early pro- 

 paganda, 97 



Navvies' and National Brick- 

 layer's Labourers Union, 323 



Neame, Ivo, 356 



Newmarket Agricultural Associ- 

 ation, 54 



Nicholls, George, 160, 181, 256, 



299, 315 



Northcote, Sir Stafford, 83 

 Nottingham Co-operative Society, 



252 



Northumberland, Duke of, 167 

 Northumberland labourer, condi- 

 tions before 1872, 17 



OLD AGE PENSIONS ACT, 1908, 172 

 Old Age Pensions, Liberal Party 



programme, 1906, 159 

 Orwin, C. B., 256 

 Oswestry Farmers' Union, 243 

 Overman, H., 242, 256, 315 

 Overwell, H., 242 

 Oxford, Bishop of, 46 note, 235 

 Oxfordshire labourers, conditions 



before 1872, 20 



PADWICK, H., 256 



Pargeter, T., 299 



Parish Councils : 



Creation of, 116, 118 

 Elections, 1919, 305, 306 

 Labourers' eligibility, 122, 123, 



305 

 Powers and work of, 134 et 



seq. 

 Parish Councils Act, 1894, 112, 



116, i2i, 125, 127 

 Parker, E. H., 315 

 Patterson, P. G., 256 



Paul, Herbert, 28, 46 note 



Pease, Edward R., 165 



Pease, Mrs. Edward R., 165 



Peat, Sir William B., 315, 325 



Pedder, Lt.-Col., 148, 185, 238 



Penshurst cottage building, 133 



Perrott, F. D., 121 



Phipps, J., 227 



Piggott, Professor G. C., 279 



Pigou, Professor A. C., 212 



Pile, J., 298, 299 



Pilgrims' march, 1874, 56 et seq. 



Pirrie, Lord, 190 



Plowman, Thomas, 48 note, 59 



Plummer, S. J., 298 



Poaching Prevention Act, 1862, 



33, 211 



Pole, Major D. G., 299 

 Politics of the agricultural labourer, 



86 et seq. 



Porter, Haman, 257 

 Powis estate dispute, 246 

 Prothero, R. E., see Lord Ernie 

 Public Libraries Act, 1919, 328 



RAILWAY STRIKE, 1919, 309 



Rea, G. G., 256, 315 



Read, C. S., 49 



Reading rooms, parish, 134, 135 



Red Van reports, 1893, in et 



seq., 129 



Reiss, R. L., 165, 207 

 Rents : 



Increase forbidden, 256 

 Rebates in 1 88 1, 68 

 Revolt of the Field, 1872, 28 et seq. 

 Rew, Sir Henry, 256 

 Reynolds, James, 63 

 Richards, Robert, 257 

 Richmond and District Farm 



Labourers' Union, 201 

 Richmond, Duke of, 68, 71 

 Ridgmount village, investigations, 



154 

 Ridgmount estate, conditions, 



1917. 283 



Rights of way, 135 

 Robbins, Roland R., 256, 315 

 Roberts, G. H., 165, 200, 247 

 Roberts, J., 256 

 Roberts, T., 271 

 Rodwell, Lionel, 242 

 Rogers, Thorold, 2 

 Rosbotham, S. T., 256 

 Rothschild Committee, 1898, 141 



note 

 Rothschild, Mrs. Leopold de, 306 



