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Bonar Law. b. ^ Now Rexton, New Brunswick, Canada. Andrew Bonar Law (/ ˈbɒnər ˈlɔː / BONN-ər; [1] 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923. Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now a Canadian province).
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party ...
Died. 30 December 1892. (1892-12-30) (aged 82) Dr. Andrew A. Bonar also printed in "The Sea of Galilee Mission of the Free Church of Scotland". Bonar and M'Cheyne travelled with two older ministers, Dr. Alexander Black [2] and Dr. Alexander Keith. Andrew Alexander Bonar (29 May 1810 in Edinburgh – 30 December 1892 in Glasgow) was a minister ...
Conservative government, 1922–1924. Bonar Law led the British Government from 1922–1923 and was succeeded by Stanley Baldwin. Baldwin led the Government through 1924. He resigned after losing the confidence of the House of Commons. The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ...
There have been several prime ministers who for various reasons failed to last a year in the job. They include two Conservative PMs in the past 100 years: Andrew Bonar Law, who clocked up 211 days ...
Bonar Law himself symbolised the change in the type of a Conservative MP as he was a Presbyterian Canadian-born Scottish businessman who became, in the words of his biographer Robert Blake, the leader of "the Party of Old England, the Party of the Anglican Church and the country squire, the party of broad acres and hereditary titles". [19]
This was the view expressed by Andrew Bonar Law, who was deputising at Westminster due to Prime Minister David Lloyd George being on holiday. Lloyd George returned two weeks into the strike, and repeated Bonar Law's decision that the hunger strikers' demands would not be met. [7]
The conference met in Buckingham Palace between 21 and 24 July 1914. Though the issue of home rule had been on the political agenda since the 1870s, the 1914 conference was the first formal peace conference involving both Nationalists and Unionists. Those who attended were the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, Lloyd George, the Irish Parliamentary ...