The Rising Tide mb-code LMG142832 3rd May 1966

3rd May 1966

Gabrielle Renard and infant son

Mr Childers was returned for the constituency of Pontefract by 658 votes

'No Popery or Newgate Reformer

a land of bubbling acid pools and mists

The Rising Tide mb-code LMG142832 3rd May 1966'The Rising Tide', 1868. The campaigning for the General Election of 1868 was well under way, and it was apparent from Gladstone's earlier victories in parliament on the question of the disestablishment of the Irish Church that this would feature strongly in his campaign for, in his view, the Irish Church was 'wholly disabled and disqualified for performing the purpose for which it exists'. This comment caused great concern in amongst Conservatives