In order not to add their votes to those of the Tory opposition and, the same time, to avoid approving the Government's "ungenerous polites," Labour members abstained from voting.
Most of the Dukes in the House Lords, and notably the Dukes of Mngton, Westminster and Atholl and the Earl of Harewood were among the 62 members who voted agains: the report, as well as Lord Lloyd, formerly Governor of Bombay ant High Commissioner for Egypt.
The majority of archbishops and bishops, on the contrary, cast the votes in favour of the reform, as well as Admiral of the Fleet Eat! Beatty and Field-Marshal Viscount
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