Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923), commonly cried Bonar Law wis a British Conservative Pairty statesman an Prime Meenister.
Andrew Bonar Law | |
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| Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick | |
| In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Precedit bi | David Lloyd George |
| Succeedit bi | Stanley Baldwin |
| Leader o the Hoose o Commons | |
| In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923 | |
| Precedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Succeedit bi | Stanley Baldwin |
| In office 10 December 1916 – 23 Mairch 1921 | |
| Prime Meenister | David Lloyd George |
| Precedit bi | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Succeedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Leader o the Conservative Pairty | |
| In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923 | |
| Precedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Succeedit bi | Stanley Baldwin |
| In office 13 November 1911 – 21 Mairch 1921 | |
| Precedit bi | Arthur Balfour |
| Succeedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Laird Privy Seal | |
| In office 10 Januar 1919 – 1 Aprile 1921 | |
| Prime Meenister | David Lloyd George |
| Precedit bi | The Earl o Crawford |
| Succeedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Chancellor o the Exchequer | |
| In office 10 December 1916 – 10 Januar 1919 | |
| Prime Meenister | David Lloyd George |
| Precedit bi | Reginald McKenna |
| Succeedit bi | Austen Chamberlain |
| Secretar o State for the Colonies | |
| In office 25 Mey 1915 – 10 December 1916 | |
| Prime Meenister | Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Precedit bi | The Viscoont Harcourt |
| Succeedit bi | The Viscoont Long |
| Leader o the Opposeetion | |
| In office 13 November 1911 – 25 Mey 1915 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Meenister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Precedit bi | Arthur Balfour |
| Succeedit bi | Sir Edward Carson[a] |
| Pairlamentar Secretar tae the Buird o Trade | |
| In office 11 Julie 1902 – 5 December 1905 | |
| Prime Meenister | Arthur Balfour |
| Precedit bi | The Earl o Dudley |
| Succeedit bi | Hudson Kearley |
| Member o Pairlament for Glesga Central | |
| In office 15 December 1918 – 30 October 1923 | |
| Precedit bi | John Mackintosh MacLeod |
| Succeedit bi | William Alexander |
| Member o Pairlament for Bootle | |
| In office 28 Mairch 1911 – 15 December 1918 | |
| Precedit bi | Thomas Myles Sandys |
| Succeedit bi | Thomas Royden |
| Member o Pairlament for Dulwich | |
| In office 16 Mey 1906 – 20 December 1910 | |
| Precedit bi | Frederick Rutherfoord Harris |
| Succeedit bi | Sir Frederick Hall |
| Member o Pairlament for Glesga Blackfriars | |
| In office 25 October 1900 – 13 Januar 1906 | |
| Precedit bi | Andrew Dryburgh Provand |
| Succeedit bi | George Nicoll Barnes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 September 1858 Kingston, Colony o New Brunswick (nou pairt o Canadae) |
| Dee'd | 30 October 1923 (aged 65) Kensington, Unitit Kinrick |
| Restin place | Wastmeenster Abbey |
| Naitionality | Breetish |
| Poleetical pairty | Conservative |
| Spoose(s) | Annie Pitcairn Robley |
| Bairns | James Isabel Charles Harrington Richard Catherine |
| Profession | Airn merchant |
| Religion | Free Kirk o Scotland |
| Signatur |  |
| a. ^ Office vacant frae 25 Mey 1915 to 19 October 1915. | |
Law wis born in the British colony o New Brunswick (nou a Canadian province), the first British prime meenister tae be born ootwi the British Isles. He wis o Scots an Ulster Scots strynd an flittit tae Scotland in 1870. He left schuil aged saxteen tae wirk in the airn industry, becomin a walthie man bi the age o thirty. He entered the Hoose o Commons at the 1900 general election, relatively late in life for a front-rank politeecian, an wis made a junior meenister, Pairlamentar Secretar tae the Buird o Tred, in 1902. Law jynt the Shaidae Cabinet in opposeetion efter the 1906 general election. In 1911, he wis appyntit a Privy Cooncillor, an stuid for the vacant pairty leadership. Despite niver haein served in the Cabinet, an despite trailin third ahint Walter Long an Austen Chamberlain, Law becam leader whan the twa front-rinners widrew raither nor risk a draw splittin the pairty.
As Leader o the Conservative Pairty an Leader o the Opposeetion, Law focused his attentions in favour o tariff reform an against Erse Hame Rule. His campaignin helped turn Leeberal attempts tae pass the Third Home Rule Bill intae a three-year struggle eventually haultit bi the start o the First Warld War, wi muckle argiement ower the status o the sax coonties in Ulster that wad later become Northren Ireland, fower o that war predominantly Protestant.
Law first held Cabinet office as Secretar o State for the Colonies in Asquith's Coaleetion Govrenment (Mey 1915 – December 1916). Upon Asquith's faw frae pouer he declined tae form a govrenment, insteid servin as Chancellor o the Exchequer in David Lloyd George's Coaleetion Government. He resigned on grunds o ill heal in early-1921. In October 1922, wi Lloyd George's Coaleetion haein become unpopular wi the Conservatives, he wrate an anonymous letter tae the press giein anerly lew-wairm support tae the Govrenment's actions ower Chanak. Efter Conservative MPs votit tae end the Coaleetion, he again becam Pairty Leader an, this time, Prime Meenister. Bonar Law wan a clear majority at the 1922 general election, an his brief premiership saw negotiation wi the Unitit States ower Breetain's war loans. Seriously ill wi cancer o the thrapple, Law demittit in Mey 1923, an dee'd later that year. He wis the shortest-servin Prime Meenister o the twentiet century (211 days in office), an is whiles cried "The Unkent Prime Meenister".