My own connection with the Society also changed. In the spring of 1886 I
gave up my business on the Stock Exchange and in the summer went to
Newcastle-on-Tyne, where I lived till the autumn of 1890. My account of
the Society for the next three years is therefore in the main derived
from its records. Sydney Olivier succeeded me as "Acting Secretary," but
for some months I was still nominally the secretary, a fact of much
significance to my future, since it enabled me if I liked to deal with
correspondence, and it was through a letter to the secretary of the
Society, answered by me from Newcastle, that I made the acquaintance of
the lady who three years later became my wife.
FOOTNOTES:
[10] "Misalliance: with a treatise on parents and children," 1914.
[11] Industrial Remuneration Conference. The Report, etc. Cassell, 1885,
p. 400.
[12] William Clarke had attended some early meetings but dropped out and
was actually elected to the Society in February, 1886.
[13] Presumably a "Times" reporter was present; but his report was not
published.
[14] Later M.P. for Tyneside and a member of Mr. Asquith's Government.
[15] Contemporary accounts of the conference can be found in the July
numbers of "To-day" and "The Republican," the former by Mrs. Besant, and
the latter, a descriptive criticism, by the Editor and Printer, George
Standring.
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