Lancaster LNU: Branch Leaders

Former Centenary Congregational Church, Lancaster, where Rev. E. J. Lawson was Minister © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: Rev. E. J. Lawson MA 1889-1975

Congregational minister active in the Lancaster LNU...

Rev. Thomas Murphy Lancaster Guardian, 27 Dec 1924

Lancaster LNU: Rev. Thomas Murphy c.1857-1924

Catholic priest supporting the League of Nations Union...

Plaque to Rev. C. E. Golland in Glasson Church © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: Rev. C. E. Golland, MA 1857-1926, Vicar of Glasson

A Church of England clergyman active in the Lancaster LNU...

Thurnham Hall, Lancaster, home of the Dalton family since the 16th century © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: J. H. Dalton of Thurnham Hall c.1874-1937

Reporting back to Lancaster news of the League Geneva Conference...

Lord Richard Cavendish, as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1900

Lancaster LNU: Lord Richard Cavendish 1871-1946

First President of the Lancaster branch of the League of Nations Union, 1921 - 1928...

Muriel Dowbiggin and husband Ernest outside their home on Borrowdale Road, Lancaster, with teachers and the Lancaster Band of Hope and Temperance Union Lancaster Guardian, 25 Aug 1933

Lancaster LNU: Muriel Dowbiggin 1891-1963 (Part 2)

Suffragist and peace activist, blazing a trail as the female Hon. Secretary of Lancaster Branch of the League of Nations Union...

Rev J. U. N. Bardsley, Vicar of Lancaster: a dedicated League of Nations advocate Lancaster Guardian 14 Jul 1928

Lancaster LNU: Rev. J. U. N. Bardsley, Vicar of Lancaster 1869-1928

Lancaster’s leading Church of England cleric supporting the League of Nations...

Muriel Dowbiggin and husband Ernest outside their home on Borrowdale Road, Lancaster, with teachers and the Lancaster Band of Hope and Temperance Union Lancaster Guardian, 25 Aug 1933

Lancaster LNU: Muriel Dowbiggin 1891-1963 (Part I)

Suffragist and peace activist, blazing a trail as the female Hon. Secretary of Lancaster Branch of the League of Nations Union...

Arthur Knowles, 1922 Lancaster Guardian

Lancaster LNU: Arthur Knowles 1864-?1931

Labour Party member of the Lancaster League of Nations Union...

High Street Congregational Church (now URC), Lancaster George Wright’s Christian faith would have been an important factor in his belief in the League of Nations © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: Alderman George Wright 1850-1927

‘A strenuous advocate of the Lancaster League of Nations Union’: Chairman, Lancaster LNU, 1924-25...