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Há 2 dias · Bonar Law became Prime Minister. Like many Coalition leaders, he did not hold office in the Conservative governments of 1922–1924, but as an elder statesman, he was consulted by the King in the choice of Stanley Baldwin as Bonar Law's successor as Conservative leader in May 1923.
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Conservative
Há 2 dias · During the First World War he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the party leader Bonar Law.
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Conservative
Há 1 dia · Stanley Baldwin, replacing Bonar Law as Prime Minister, in June 1923 set up a cabinet sub-committee whose terms of reference were: examine Palestine policy afresh and to advise the full Cabinet whether Britain should remain in Palestine and whether if she remained, the pro-Zionist policy should be continued.
Há 3 dias · On 17th March, Bonar Law, the Conservative Leader, who had been blamed for delaying Lloyd George’s Irish peace proposal, resigned from the Cabinet. Tory extremists were urging full-scale war and Lloyd George was very conscious of the danger to his Coalition Government.
Há 2 dias · Andrew Bonar Law, the only Canadian-born prime minister of the United Kingdom, and R.B. Bennett, the only New Brunswick-born prime minister of Canada, were friends of his youth and young manhood. His help was all-important to both of them in their careers.
Há 3 dias · In 2000, the British Politics Group survey of British and American scholars placed him ahead of Bonar Law and Major as well. Arguably, therefore, in contemporary appraisals Chamberlain has become less of a 'profoundly underrated, misjudged and misunderstood figure' (p. 2) than his latest biographer would have us believe.
Há 3 dias · From 1878 to 1897, Balfour's brother-in-law, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, well-known as a mathematician and physicist, shared the house. He was then engaged in experiments on densities of gases, which resulted, in 1894, in the discovery of argon, a hitherto unknown constituent of the atmosphere.
