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Who's Who - Andrew Bonar Law. Andrew Bonar Law was the Canadian-born son of a Scottish clergyman. He worked as a boy on his fathers smallholding. At 12 he went to live with his late mother's cousins who were rich Glaswegian merchant bankers in Scotland.
Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923) “I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them, and in which, in my belief, they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.”. Andrew Bonar Law. Bonar Law led the Conservative Party for more than a decade from 1911 to ...
Andrew Bonar Law: 1922 – 1923: Conservative David Lloyd George: 1916 – 1922: Liberal: Herbert Asquith: 1908 – 1916: Liberal Henry Campbell-Bannerman: 1905 – 1908: Liberal Arthur Balfour: 1902 – 1905: Conservative Marquess of Salisbury: 1895 – 1902: Conservative Earl of Rosebery: 1894 – 1895: Liberal William Ewart Gladstone: 1892 ...
Mar 20, 2015 · Bonar Law attended Glasgow High School, and at the age of sixteen took up a position in the family bank. In 1885 he became a partner in an iron merchants, and began a successful business career. In 1891 he married Annie Pitcairn Robley (1866-1909) , and they had six children; it was a happy marriage, and her death in 1909 created an enduring ...
BONAR LAW AND HOME RULE I75. schemes to the government, firstly upon a nine-county basis and then even a six-county one, Bonar Law was confident of the support of many Liberal backbenchers and ministerialists. However, Bonar Law was equally confident that such schemes would be. rejected by the Nationalist party.
Nov 20, 2020 · Who was Bonar Law? Asquith, the Liberal Party leader, is said to have described Bonar Law (1858-1923), in much quoted words, as “the unknown Prime Minister”. Alistair Lexden, historian of the Conservative Party, took a close look at his career in preparation for a short film which will be shown on the BBC’s Parliament Channel.
May 26, 2017 · Bonar Law was the best choice of leader, as Austen Chamberlain was unacceptable to Balfour loyalists, and Walter Long was unacceptable to Chamberlain’s supporters. Bonar Law, a man for tariffs, but who had remained loyal to Balfour, seemed the obvious choice to try and reunite a bitterly divided and demoralised party. It was an unhappy ...
