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Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. [12] By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, [12] and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), [13] served as lord protector to ...
Books by Winston Churchill (13 P) D. Novels by Benjamin Disraeli (17 P) J. Books by Boris Johnson (6 P) T. Books by Margaret Thatcher (3 P) Books by Liz Truss (1 P)
Macmillan was seriously injured as an infantry officer during the First World War. He suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war he joined his family book-publishing business, then entered Parliament at the 1924 general election for Stockton-on-Tees. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after ...
London. Allen Lane, 1976. (covers early life) Facing the Dictators: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden. London. Cassell, 1962. (covers early career and first period as Foreign Secretary, to 1938) The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden. London. Cassell, 1965. (covers 1938–1945) Full Circle: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden. London. Cassell, 1960.
It arrived in January 1885 two days after a massacre killed approximately 7,000 British and Egyptian soldiers and 4,000 civilians. The disaster proved a major blow to Gladstone's popularity. Queen Victoria sent him a telegram of rebuke which found its way into the press.
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest prime ministers for his leadership during the Second World War. Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, a Tory prime minister from 1812 to 1827, is ranked highly despite being called "the Arch-mediocrity" by later Conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The official Churchill historian, Sir Martin Gilbert, in 1997 published an extensive record of correspondence between Reeves and Churchill from 1937 to 1964, in his book Winston Churchill and Emery Reeves. [9] After Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940, Reves was sent to New York City in February of 1941 to help build up the British ...
After becoming prime minister, Douglas-Home returned to the Commons by winning a by-election on the recess death of MP Gilmour Leburn. Uniquely, Cameron 's brief parliamentary activity as Foreign Secretary from November 2023 to July 2024 was served while a member of the House of Lords .