CHAPTER XVI 



MEMBER FOR LONDON UNIVERSITY (1880-1881) 



(Age 46-47) 



In the House of Commons he introduced two 

 Bills this year, one to amend the Companies 

 Act, which was read a second time on February 9 

 and passed on February 16 ; and the Ancient 

 Monuments Bill, which was read a second time 

 on February 10 and passed on February 24 — 

 neither being opposed. The last had already 

 been through its second reading no less than 

 six times in the House of Commons, and had 

 gone through Committee twice, and now he 

 thought it was really safe, especially after it 

 passed its second reading in the House of Lords. 

 As a matter of fact, however, it did not become 

 law until 1882. Before Lord Stanhope, who had 

 taken charge of it in the Upper House, was able 

 to get it through Committee, Parliament was 

 dissolved. Regarding it, however, as secure, he 

 enters a pathetic little note in reference to it 

 in his diary of date, February 24, — " How pleased 

 Nelly would have been ! " 



It may be observed that Lord Eversley, in 

 his admirable book, Commons, Forests, and Foot- 

 paths, writes : "I was myself responsible for the 



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