Jenifer Hart author of "Proportional Representation Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945"

Jenifer Hart author of

Proportional Representation -- Critics of the British electoral system  1820-1945

She was a daughter of Sir John Fischer Williams, author and prominent thinker on PR.

Her granddaughter Mojo Mathers was elected MP in New Zealand in 2011, the first deaf person to be elected to that body.

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intro has pithy reasons for PR

by about page 30 Hart is already up to 1868 and Droop

Block Voting just a custom with no backing   pg. 17-18, 18-19

porous districts 

Thomas Wright Hill pg. 6

House of Commons   pg. 12

Gilpin  pg. 13

Earl Grey (the third) page 20

Cumulative Vote pg. 20

Limited Vote pg. 21

Lord John Russell pg. 21

reference to a pre-Hare person pushing for Block Voting in at-large district calling it "collective voting" or "ticket voting"   p. 19

Hare's books are said to be popular -- they sold only 25 every year! (Even the great Catherine Helen Spence only got rid of all the cpies of her book by giving them away!)

Hart says she is perplexed that Hare did not ever adopt Droop quota

but apparently she did not make the mathematical calculation:

Hare and Droop are identical when you elect more than 400 in one contest.

Hare's 1857 book discussed on pg. 26

reference ca. page 28 to "mystical district" boundaries   pg. 33

quota pg. 35  

reference made to the quota and how people don't understand it  - one even calling it a "magic number."