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6 giorni fa · Andrew Bonar Law (/ ˈ b ɒ n ər ˈ l ɔː / BONN-ər; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as 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).
3 giorni fa · During the First World War he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the party leader Bonar Law. In 1917 he was appointed to the junior ministerial post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury , where he sought to encourage voluntary donations by the rich to repay the United Kingdom's war debt, writing letters to The Times under ...
3 giorni fa · 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.
14 mag 2024 · Its inaugural news bulletin in November 1922 relayed coverage on an Andrew Bonar Law speech and a train robbery. Uniquely read twice firstly in a slow delivery then at a faster pace as producers attempted to embed a standard pronunciation practice.
19 mag 2024 · For more than half a century, Lord Beaverbrook lived and moved among the mighty in world affairs. 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.
5 giorni fa · As private secretary to Andrew Bonar Law (also Canadian-born), he helped him win the Conservative Party leadership in 1911. He also worked with Law to remove the Liberal H.H. Asquith as prime minister in favour of the Liberal David Lloyd George in December 1916.
30 apr 2024 · In the election that followed the Conservatives managed to achieve a comfortable majority, despite division between supporters of their new leader Andrew Bonar Law and ousted leader Chamberlain. The equally divided Liberal Party, split between Lloyd George and Asquith factions, came a poor third.
