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A Century of PremiersAndrew Bonar Law — Tory Puritan

A Century of Premiers: Andrew Bonar Law — Tory Puritan [Andrew Bonar Law has had the misfortune to be remembered — if at all — as ‘the Unknown Prime Minister’. This was partly due to the brevity of his premiership — a mere 209 days — the shortest in modern times, but rather more to a bon mot attributed to Asquith, who attended his funeral in Westminster Abbey. The former Liberal Prime Minister, who had treated Law with disdain throughout his lifetime, was heard to remark how fitting it was ‘that we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier’. This misfortune was compounded by Lord Blake, who chose it as the title of his highly praised biography (Robert Blake, The Unknown Prime Minister, 1955).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Century of PremiersAndrew Bonar Law — Tory Puritan

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-4039-3990-6
Pages
94 –106
DOI
10.1057/9780230511507_7
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Andrew Bonar Law has had the misfortune to be remembered — if at all — as ‘the Unknown Prime Minister’. This was partly due to the brevity of his premiership — a mere 209 days — the shortest in modern times, but rather more to a bon mot attributed to Asquith, who attended his funeral in Westminster Abbey. The former Liberal Prime Minister, who had treated Law with disdain throughout his lifetime, was heard to remark how fitting it was ‘that we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier’. This misfortune was compounded by Lord Blake, who chose it as the title of his highly praised biography (Robert Blake, The Unknown Prime Minister, 1955).]

Published: Oct 19, 2015

Keywords: Prime Minister; Family Firm; Conservative Party; Political Career; Home Rule

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