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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Meeting at the Mansion-House?Speeches by the late Bishop of London, Mr. Bryce, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Lord Wantage, the Chief Rabbi, and others?Meeting of the General Committee. The impetus being thus given, the movement was not allowed to flag. Two public meetings, very largely attended, were held in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion-House, presided over by the Lord Mayor of London for the time being. The first of these took place in March 1898. Among those on the platform on that occasion were: ? The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, the Right Hon. Evelyn Ashley, the late Right Hon. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., the Rev. Canon Benham, Mr. A. Bonham-Carter, the Right Hon. J. Bryce, M.P., Professor Montague Burrows (Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford), Sir F. Burton, Mr. R. K. Causton, M.P., the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Clifford, Admiral Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, M.P., Professor Dicey (the present Lord Mayor of London), Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Mr. Louis Dyer (Chicago), Dr. Fearon (Headmaster of Winchester), Mr. H. S. Foster, M.P., Mr. Lewis Fry, M.P., Lord Grantley, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Frank Green, Sir F. Seymour-Haden, P.R.E., Mr. Frederic Harrison, Sir F. Dixon-Hartland, M.P., Mr. Helder, M.P., Mr. A. F. Jeffreys, M.P., Mr. A. Barton Kent (the Master of the Skinners' Company), Mr. G. D. Leslie, R.A., Sir J. D. Linton, P.R.I., Lord LlandafF, Lord Avebury, then the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., Professor F. W. Maitland, Sir H. Maxwell, M.P., Sir Lewis Morris, Mr. W. H. Myers, M.P., Mr. Passmore Edwards, Mr. Blake Odgers, Q.C. (Recorder of Winchester), Sir Arthur Otway, Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Melville Portal, Mr. Wyndham S. Portal, Lord Reay, THE MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON MEETING-PLACE OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE THE BRITISH...
