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In the third of his articles on Harriet Grote (1792-1878)<\/a>, our research fellow Dr Martin Spychal<\/a> looks at Harriet\u2019s introduction to politics at Westminster during the first \u2018reformed\u2019 Parliament of 1833-34.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harriet Grote (1792-1878)<\/a> was one of the most important British politicians of the 1830s. As I\u2019ve discussed in my previous articles, she had been a key figure among London\u2019s intellectual radicals during the<\/a> previous decade, before embracing national politics, alongside her husband, George Grote (1794-1871), during the reform crisis of 1830-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aftermath of George\u2019s election as MP for London in 1832, Harriet wasted little time establishing herself at Westminster. At a time when women weren\u2019t allowed to vote or sit in Parliament (or for that matter play any formal, public role in political life), Harriet became a highly influential figure behind the scenes at Westminster. One of the first things that she did was to establish herself as the hostess of 34 Parliament Street, which quickly became a political hub for reformers and radicals during the 1833 parliamentary session<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1832 election (the first election after the 1832 Reform Act) returned one of the most radical Houses of Commons in UK history. When Parliament convened in January 1833 around a third of Westminster\u2019s 658 MPs described themselves as either Reformers, Radicals or Repealers, as distinct from the governing Whigs or opposition Conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 1832 election returned one of the most radical Commons in UK history. Party labels compiled from contemporary sources \u00a9 Martin Spychal 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One of the key political issues that served to unite these radicals and reformers (or the \u2018popular party\u2019 as Harriet described them) was their demand for additional electoral reforms beyond those granted by the 1832 Reform Act. Top on their list was the introduction of secret voting or \u2018the ballot\u2019, which it was hoped would put an end to illegitimate aristocratic and landlord influence at elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 1833 Harriet and George hosted discussions among Parliament\u2019s reformers and radicals (including veteran radical MPs Henry Warburton<\/a> and Joseph Hume<\/a>) to identify who would spearhead the issue in Parliament. With Harriet \u2018joining most cordially in the counsel\u2019 it was agreed that her husband George \u2018should be the person to undertake the ballot question in the ensuing session of Parliament\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March of Silenus [cropped], John Doyle (1838), \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<\/a>, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As I will discuss in a future blog, Harriet was one of the chief organisers of the popular, though ultimately futile, national campaign for the ballot during the 1830s. In the immediate context of 1833, however, it provided her with an opportunity to announce herself to Parliament and to extend her network of political contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most important physical sites of women\u2019s engagement in the House of Parliament prior to the fire of 1834 was an informal women\u2019s viewing gallery above the Commons, often referred to as the \u2018ventilator\u2019<\/a>. Harriet preferred to call it \u2018The Lantern\u2019, observing that it allowed for \u2018ten or twelve persons\u2019 to be \u2018so placed as to hear, and to a certain extent see, what passed in the body of the House\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In preparation for George\u2019s impending parliamentary motion on the ballot, in February 1833 Harriet \u2018made an experiment\u2019 and attended the ventilator for the first time. \u2018Going with Fanny [Frances] Ord\u2019, the wife of the MP for Newport, William Henry Ord, Harriet reported that \u2018one hears very well, but seeing is difficult, being distant from the members, and the apertures in the ventilator being small and grated\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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‘one hears very well, but seeing is difficult, being distant from the members, and the apertures in the ventilator being small and grated\u2019. Sketch of the ventilator by Lady Georgiana Chatterton<\/a> (c) Shakespeare Birthplace Trust\/ Baddesley Clinton NT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When the night eventually arrived for George to introduce his first ballot motion, Harriet effectively held court in the ventilator before hosting a soiree at their Parliament Street residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After listening intently to George’s hour-long speech, she described how \u2018immediately afterwards\u2019 William Molesworth (MP for East Cornwall) \u2018joined me upstairs, in the roof of the House’ and \u2018poured out his admiration of [George] Grote’s performance\u2019. In what soon became an annual tradition (on account of George\u2019s repeated parliamentary motions for the ballot), \u2018the whole corps of Radicals\u2019 then descended on 34 Parliament Street \u2018to come and pour out their congratulations\u2019 for their efforts in promoting the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grotes’ association with the ballot instantly elevated them to the forefront of British radical politics. This position was cemented over the following year by Harriet\u2019s unceasing efforts to forge alliances with those she identified as the most important \u2018respectable Rads\u2019 at Westminster and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Harriet and George hosted extended weekend political salons at their ‘country residence’ in Dulwich, ‘Metropolitan Borughs’, Atlas<\/em>, 3 Feb. 1833 \u00a9 Martin Spychal 2021 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Harriet quickly cultivated an inner circle of leading politicians, thinkers, journalists and lawyers, who she invited to extended weekend political salons at the Grotes’ \u2018country residence’ in Dulwich Wood. As well as the aforementioned Henry Warburton and Joseph Hume, senior radical dignitaries such as Francis Place might be found there on a Saturday evening talking political strategy with Harriet and George in the company of rising new MPs such as John Arthur Roebuck, Charles Buller and William Molesworth, the editor of the Spectator<\/em>, Robert Rintoul, the writer Sarah Austin, or the young utilitarian, John Stuart Mill.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was even willing to defy social convention and drive her guests back into London after their stays, offering another opportunity to extend her political influence. In one particularly revealing passage, in 1834 Harriet recalled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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driving my phaeton to London one morning [from Dulwich Wood], with Molesworth by my side, C[harles] Buller and Roebuck in the seat behind. During the whole six miles, these three vied with each other as to who should make the most outrageous Radical motions in the House [of Commons], the two behind standing up and talking, sans intermission<\/em>, all the way, to Molesworth and myself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for Harriet her efforts to organise Westminster\u2019s reformers and radicals did not translate into immediate political results. Parliament itself, she lamented, still contained a majority of \u2018men so lamentably deficient in patriotism and purity of principle\u2019 that substantive change did not appear immediately likely. These \u2018deficient\u2019 men included the Whigs and the Conservatives, who had effectively formed an alliance of the centre to frustrate radical policy, and the \u2018coarse and violent\u2019 (in Harriet\u2019s words) leader of the Irish Repealers, Daniel O\u2019Connell, whom she never trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harriet\u2019s hope that the Whig government of the 2nd Earl Grey might support her radical ambitions was quashed within a single Parliament. It was for this reason that she relished one small political victory in June 1834, when her husband, together with Henry Ward, MP for St. Albans, introduced a crucial vote over the funding of the Irish Church. The vote prompted the resignation of two cabinet ministers. A month later the Grey ministry would resign.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Upsetting of the Reform Coach, John Doyle (1834), \u00a9 The Trustees of the British Museum<\/a>, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The \u2018rupture of the Cabinet on the Irish Church question, has put us in great spirits\u2019, Harriet informed her sister. What made this moment so positive for Harriet was that in voting against the Whig government, previously subservient MPs appeared to be acting on behalf of the people, rather than aristocratic, ministerial self-interest. The vote \u2018was a remarkable proof\u2019, Harriet wrote, of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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how powerful the popular party are in that House, for the men who usually support this Government were forced from fear of their constituents to abandon the Ministers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In my next article I’ll turn my attention to Harriet’s attempts to guide \u2018the popular party\u2019 following the 1835 election\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read part four of Martin’s article series click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S. Richardson, \u2018A Regular Politician in Breeches: The Life and Work of Harriet Lewin Grote\u2019, in K. Demetrious (ed.), Brill\u2019s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition <\/em>(2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. Galvin-Elliot, ‘An Artist in the Attic: Women and the House of Commons in the Early-Nineteenth Century<\/a>‘, Victorian Commons <\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lady Eastlake, Mrs Grote: A Sketch <\/em>(1880)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J. Hamburger, \u2018Grote [n\u00e9e<\/em> Lewin], Harriet\u2019, Oxf. DNB, <\/em>www.oxforddnb.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. Grote, Collected Papers: In Prose and Verse 1842-1862 <\/em>(1862)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M. L. Clarke, George Grote: A Biography<\/em> (1962)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. Grote (ed.), Posthumous Papers: Comprising Selections from Familiar Correspondence <\/em>(1874)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is an updated version of an article originally published on the Victorian Commons website<\/a> on 29 September 2021, written by Dr Martin Spychal.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the third of his articles on Harriet Grote (1792-1878), our research fellow Dr Martin Spychal looks at Harriet\u2019s introduction to politics at Westminster during the first \u2018reformed\u2019 Parliament of 1833-34. Harriet Grote (1792-1878) was one of the most important British politicians of the 1830s. 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