This act admitted Irish and English Roman Catholics to Parliament and to all but a handful of public offices. With the Universities Tests Act of 1871, which ...

In 1858, Jews were allowed to sit in Parliament, and in 1888, following a campaign by atheist Charles Bradlaugh, those of any or no religion could too.

The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 7), also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, removed the sacramental tests that barred Roman ...

In 1778 Parliament passed the Catholic Relief Act. Although it did not grant freedom of worship, it allowed Catholics to join the army and purchase land if they ...

The campaign for Catholic emancipation proved successful in 1829, when a Catholic relief bill was passed granting Roman Catholic men the right to sit in ...

The issue of 'Catholic Emancipation' - the granting of civic and political rights to Catholics - dominated political debate from the Act of Union in 1800 until ...

… achieved passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act, which finally repealed the Penal Laws and enabled Catholics to sit once again in the British Parliament.

The Act was a compromise, as it effectively disenfranchised the minor landholders of Ireland, the so-called Forty Shilling Freeholders. The Act raised fivefold ...

The explanation usually given for the government's failure to act is that the king refused to permit it and would not allow the cabinet to consider the matter.