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Sarah Charlotte, Lady Campbell-Bannerman (née Bruce; 10 May 1832 – 30 August 1906) was the wife of British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman led the Liberal Party to its greatest political victory in the 1906 election and he set the scene for the reforms of the last Liberal government. His Cabinet included three future Prime Ministers: H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill.
He married Charlotte Bruce in 1860. She was a rather shy and homely lass, in later life in poor health and overweight, who shared Campbell-Bannerman’s tastes and views during a lifetime of mutual devotion. There were no children.
In 1860, Campbell-Bannerman married Sarah Charlotte Bruce, and he and his new bride set up house at 6 Clairmont Gardens in the Park district of the West End of Glasgow. The couple never had any children.
Charlotte Campbell Bannerman, his wife, ambitious for her husband, had previously influenced him to reject the idea of becoming Speaker, and instead to stand for the leadership of the Liberal Party. In his final discussion with Asquith on December , Campbell Ban -nerman said that he wished her (Charlotte) ‘to be the final arbiter’.
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Liberal politician Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was born in Glasgow in 1836 and educated at the University of Glasgow. On 5 December 1905, he became Britain’s first Prime Minister. He had first been elected to Parliament in the general election of 1868, where he represented the seat of Stirling Burghs and, in subsequent Parliaments, he was ...
