Andrew Bonar Law - Conservative Leader

For a full list of Ministerial office holders, see Conservative Government 1922-1924 Andrew Bonar Law - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons Lord Cave - Lord Chancellor Lord Salisbury - Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Lord Cecil of Chelwood - Lord Privy Seal Stanley Baldwin - Chancellor of the Exchequer William Clive Bridgeman - Secretary of State for the Home Department Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Secretary of State f ...

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The Right Honourable Andrew Bonar Law (September 16, 1858 - October 30, 1923) was a Conservative British statesman and Prime Minister. Andrew Bonar Law - Early Life. Of Ulster Scots and Scottish descent, Andrew Bonar Law was born in Rexton, a small village in eastern New Brunswick, Canada. He was the son of the Reverend James Law and Elizabeth Kidston. In 1860, Law's mother died in childbirth. He worked as a boy on his fathers smallholding and for some years after his mother’s death he was in the c ...

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Of Ulster Scots and Scottish descent, Andrew Bonar Law was born in Rexton, a small village in eastern New Brunswick, Canada. He was the son of the Reverend James Law and Elizabeth Kidston. In 1860, Law's mother died in childbirth. He worked as a boy on his fathers smallholding and for some years after his mother’s death he was in the care of his maternal aunt, Janet Kidston, who lived in her brother-in-law's household until his remarriage, when she decided to return to her native Scotland. She suggested that it might be to her nephe ...

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He was elected to Parliament for Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown as a Conservative in 1900. He associated himself with the Protectionist wing of the party led by Joseph Chamberlain, and after Chamberlain withdrew from politics in 1906, Law came to lead that wing of the party along with Chamberlain's son, Austen. He had a reputation for honesty and fearlessness, and was well regarded as an effective speaker. These qualities helped him to be appointed as Parliam ...

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For a full list of Ministerial office holders, see Conservative Government 1922-1924 Andrew Bonar Law - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons Lord Cave - Lord Chancellor Lord Salisbury - Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Lord Cecil of Chelwood - Lord Privy Seal Stanley Baldwin - Chancellor of the Exchequer William Clive Bridgeman - Secretary of State for the Home Department Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Secretary of State f ...

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At war's end he gave up the exchequer for the less demanding sinecure office of Lord Privy Seal, but remained Leader of the Commons. In 1921, ill health forced his resignation as Tory leader and Leader of the Commons in favor of Austen Chamberlain. His departure weakened the hardliners in the cabinet who were opposed to negotiating with the IRA, and the Anglo-Irish War ended in the summer. He returned in October 1922 to become Prime Minister when Tory backbenchers led by Stanley Baldwin forced the Conservatives to leave Lloyd George's coalit ...

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Andrew Bonar Law, Andrew Bonar Law - Early Life, Andrew Bonar Law - Parliament, Andrew Bonar Law - Conservative Leader, Andrew Bonar Law - The Great War, Andrew Bonar Law - Post War and Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law - Bonar Law's Government October 1922 - May 1923, Andrew Bonar Law - Changes, Andrew Bonar Law - Assessment

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