| Description | This article, entitled '"Votes for Miners," they cried', relates to the celebratory dinner of the Old Londoners' Association held at the Waldorf Hotel on Saturday 1st April 1950. The article focuses on Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's contribution to the dinner, describing her as 'one of the earliest pupils at the school in 1874'. The article features quotations from Taylor Cadbury's speech in which she had praised Miss Buss as a driving force who 'worked for higher education for women.' The article reveals that Taylor Cadbury's speech referred particularly to Frances Mary Buss's campaign for girls to take the Cambridge Senior Examination. During her speech Taylor Cadbury had produced the certificate awarded to her when she had passed the examination in 1875 to demonstrate Miss Buss's success. The article records that Taylor Cadbury had told members of the Old North Londoners' Association that she showed her certificate to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, describing Frances Mary Buss as a 'wonderful example'. |