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promoting supporters of denominational
instruction in the London School
Board
elections.6
By February the following year, the Provincial Secretary for
London was able to report that the League had played a significant role
in local school board elections.
Eight Habitations had worked
collectively and forty-eight others participated on an individual
basis.
In all, seven Habitations were characterized as "very active,"
twenty-five as "active," twenty-four as "fairly," and forty-eight as
having apparently played no role.
That same month, LGC canvassers
extended assistance in the LCC election to Sir Blundell Maple (South,
St. Pancras Division) and Mr. Costigan (Battersea, Division). They
were assisted by the Hampstead and Marylebone Habitations, working for
Maple and the Hammersmith and Kensington Habitations, serving
Costigan.7
LGC support in local, regional, and national elections con­
tinued throughout the period under study.
In November, 1895 the LGC
executive was instructed to write friends and bring to the notice of
their representative associations the importance of maintaining
religious education in the schools.
Widespread activity on the part of
the LGC was also reported in an annual assessment prepared by the
Ladies' Honorary Secretary, Lady Westbury.
She credited women with
having made extensive efforts in board shcool and County Council
contests.
The LGC was attributed with having been particularly
1894.
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Ibid., 1 June 1894; 29 June 1894; 27 July 1894; 2 August
Ibid., 1 February 1895; 15 February 1895.