“I had made up my mind that L. G. was the only man to govern the country.”
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Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923.
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politics · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923 · politician · chess player · also Bonar Law, Andrew Bonar Law, Law
Born 16 September 1858 · Died 30 October 1923 · Q166663
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2026· 6 entries
“act as the policeman for the world”
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“would see his people and probably, though I could not give any promise to that effect, try to induce them to accept it”
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“from any action ... we think necessary to defeat one of the most ignoble conspiracies ... ever formed against the liberties of free-born men.”
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“I said so to [the Liberals] and I say so now, with the full sense of the responsibility which attaches to my position, that if the attempt be made under present conditions, I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster will go, in which I shall not be ready to support them, and in which they will not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people”
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“it was a case of a choice of two evils, and all that one could do was to take the lesser of the two, and that I am sure we have done”
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2024· 1 entry
Foreign Affairs: The Strange Case of Andrew Bonar Law
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1923· 3 entries
Died 1923-10-30.
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“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.”
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“These people in the North-east of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by honourable gentlemen below the gangway [i.e. the Irish Nationalist Party].”
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1922· 5 entries
Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1922–1923).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1922–1923).
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After which they became Conservatives again (though the name "Unionist" continued in use in Scotland and Northern Ireland)
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1921· 2 entries
Ill health forced his resignation as Conservative leader and Leader of the Commons in favour of Austen Chamberlain
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And a wave of strikes in the coal and railway industries also added to the government's unpopularity, as did the apparent failure of the Genoa Conference, which ended in an apparent rapprochement between Germany and Sovi
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: Lord Privy Seal (1919–1921).
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1918· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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1916· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1916–1919).
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Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1916–1921).
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1912· 2 entries
It would most likely become law by 1914
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To point out that vetoing or significantly amending the Act in the House of Lords would force the government to resign, and such a course of action was also suggested by others in 1913–14
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1911· 7 entries
Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1911–1921).
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Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1911–1918).
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“I think, perhaps, it would be useful if I repeat again to you the words which I used in the first speech when I became leader of our party [in 1911]...“No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction...” That was my view then and it is my view today, and if I thought the Unionist Party was or would ever become a party of that kind I would not be a member of it.”
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With the Conservative Party unable to afford him being out of Parliament, Law was elected in a March 1911 by-election for the safe Conservative seat of Bootle
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Was appointed a Privy Councillor, before standing for the vacant party leadership
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1911–1915).
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Calling it the "Home Rule in Disguise Act" and saying it was an attempt to change parliamentary procedures so as to allow Home Rule "through the back door"
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1910· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1910).
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Destroyed the large Liberal majority, meaning they relied on the Irish Nationalists to maintain a government
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1909· 2 entries
And his Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George introduced the People's Budget, which sought through increased direct and indirect taxes to redistribute wealth and fund social reform programmes
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Hit Law hard; despite his relatively young age and prosperous career, he never remarried
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).
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1903· 1 entry
Chamberlain found that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer (C
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1897· 1 entry
Law was asked to become the Conservative Party candidate for the parliamentary seat of Glasgow Bridgeton
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1890· 1 entry
Law met Annie Pitcairn Robley, the 24-year-old daughter of a Glaswegian merchant, Harrington Robley
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1888· 1 entry
Moved out of the Kidston household and set up his own home at Seabank, with his sister Mary (who had earlier come over from Canada) acting as the housekeeper
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1885· 1 entry
The Kidston brothers decided to retire, and agreed to merge the firm with the Clydesdale Bank
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1884· 1 entry
And the incumbent, Andrew Provand, was highly popular
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1873· 1 entry
Aged fourteen, he transferred to the High School of Glasgow, where with his good memory he showed a talent for languages, excelling in Greek, German and French
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1870· 1 entry
His new wife took over Janet's duties, and Janet decided to return home to Scotland
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1861· 1 entry
Her sister Janet travelled to New Brunswick from her home in Scotland to look after the Law children
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-09-16.
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