Juliet Rhys-Williams

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Juliet Rhys-Williams

Lady Juliet Evangeline Rhys-Williams (born December 17, 1898 in Sheering , Essex , † September 18, 1964 in London ) was a British civil servant and politician of the British Liberal Party . She later joined the Conservative Party . As an author, she has published articles and books on politics, economics, philosophy and religion, as well as novels and dramas. In 1918 she began her career as the private secretary to the Director of Training and Staff Duties at the Admiralty of the United Kingdom, the commanding authority of the British Royal Navy . From 1919 to 1920 she was the private secretary of the parliamentary manager in the Ministry of Transport.

Political career

Rhys-Williams ran as a nationally liberal candidate in the county elections to the British House of Commons in 1938 . Her candidacy attracted public attention because she decided to line up when her little daughter was only 8 days old. As an advocate of a grand coalition of almost all parties, she enjoyed the support of the local association of conservatives. In the two-round election, she received 40% of the vote and from then on supported the official Liberal Party with her political activities. In 1943 she became honorary chairwoman of the Liberal Women's Liberal Federation in the Liberal Party. From 1944 she was president of the party's press and public relations committee for two years. The Liberal Party published its ideas and proposals for reforming the income tax. In the British general election in 1945 , she stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the constituency of Illford North . After a disagreement with her party leaders over business policy, she resigned.

Rhys-Williams is considered to be the originator of the concept of negative income tax in the form of the social dividend . As a member of the Beveridge Commission for the Establishment of the British Welfare State, she unsuccessfully campaigned for a basic income in the form of a negative income tax as an alternative to the main recommendation in the commission's 1942 report for an insurance-based solution.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writings by Juliet Rhys-Williams in the LSE archive
  2. ^ Hull Daily Mail, January 7, 1938
  3. ^ Hull Daily Mail, February 3, 1938
  4. ↑ Rhys Williams, Juliet Evangeline, (Lady Rhys Williams) , Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed on Sept. 28, 2014
  5. ^ William Nicoll: Williams, Dame Juliet Evangeline Rhys (1898–1964) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct. 2008, accessed on Sept. 28, 2014
  6. ^ Thomas Apolte : Negative income tax transfer system . Ed .: Faculty of Economics, Institute for Economic Education, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Information 13/1089. Parliamentary advisory and expert service of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2004, p. 10 .
  7. ↑ Tony Fitzpatrick: Freedom and security: an introduction to the basic income debate , 1st publ. Edition, St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-312-22313-7 , p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Rhys-Williams, Juliet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhys-Williams, Juliet Evangeline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist, politician, writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheering , Essex
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1964
Place of death London