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Opposition to compulsory schooling bill echoes religious liberty fears
The piece argues 1870 public opinion could have blocked a sectarian education measure. It condemns Lord Sandon’s bill for forcing clerical control, cites a magistrate’s ruling on parental choice, critiques Gace’s catechism, and urges a Cowper Temple like clause to separate compulsion from parental choice in all schools.
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Birmingham League
Richard
Charles Dilke
Lord Sandon
Kay-Shuttleworth
Ingham
Hammersmith
Church of England
St. Ethelburga’s
Bishopsgate
Gace
Great Barling
Great Barling School, In Any Man—Will Even Lord Sandon
Gladstone
House of Lords
Tweedledum
Tweedledee
Dr. Watts