Bonar Law's Conservative War Coalition

Andrew Bonar Law

British Conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923, recording one of the shortest tenures of any British prime minister in the 20th century. Born in Canada, he moved to Scotland at the age of 12. After succeeding as an iron merchant, he became a Member of Parliament in 1900 and assumed leadership of the Conservative Party in 1911. He took a staunch Unionist stance on tariff reform and Irish Home Rule, and served as Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the all-party coalition government during World War I. In 1922, he became Prime Minister following the collapse of the Lloyd George coalition government, but resigned in May 1923 due to throat cancer. He passed away in October of the same year.

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Year	Andrew Bonar Law
1858	Birth of Andrew Bonar Law (Period: September 16, 1858, Location: Five Rivers, New Brunswick, Canada (formerly Kingston))
1870	Relocation to Scotland and Employment in Iron and Steel Industry (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 11 years old, Period: 1870–1880s, Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
1891	Marriage (Andrew Bonar Law, Annie Pitcairn Robley, Age: 32 years old, Period: March 24, 1891, Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
1900	First Election to the House of Commons (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1900, Location: Glasgow Blackfriars, UK)
1902	Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1902–1905, Location: Board of Trade, London, UK)
1911	Leader of the Conservative Party (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 53 years old, Period: November 1911, Location: Carlton Club, London, UK)
1912	Irish Home Rule Crisis and the Third Home Rule Bill (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1912–1914, Location: London, UK and Ulster, Ireland) Hardline Stance on the Ulster Question (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1912–1914, Location: London, UK and Ulster, Ireland) Union of the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionist Party (Age: 53 years old, Period: February 1912, Location: London, UK)
1915	1915 Shell Crisis and Formation of Coalition Government (Age: 56 years old, Period: May 1915, Location: House of Commons and Government, London, UK) Appointment as Colonial Secretary during WWI (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 56 years old, Period: May 1915–December 1916, Location: Colonial Office, London, UK)
1916	Appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 58 years old, Period: December 1916–January 1919, Location: HM Treasury and House of Commons, London, UK)
1918	1918 General Election (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 60 years old, Period: December 1918, Location: Glasgow Central, UK)
1919	Anglo-Irish War (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1919–1921, Location: Ireland)
1921	Resignation as Conservative Leader and Leader of the House of Commons (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 62 years old, Period: March 1921, Location: London, UK)
1922	Handling of Anglo-American War Debts (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1922–1923, Location: London, UK and US) Carlton Club Meeting and Collapse of Coalition Government (Age: 64 years old, Period: October 19, 1922, Location: Carlton Club, London, UK) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 64 years old, Period: October 23, 1922–May 20, 1923, Location: 10 Downing Street, London, UK)
1923	Resignation as Prime Minister and Death (Andrew Bonar Law, Age: 64 years old, Period: May–October 1923, Location: London, UK) Death of Andrew Bonar Law (Age: 65 years old, Period: October 30, 1923, London, England)

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French Politics	Raymond Poincaré Georges Clemenceau René Viviani Alexandre Millerand Aristide Briand Joseph Caillaux
British Politics	Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George Horatio Herbert Kitchener Andrew Bonar Law Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Andrew Bonar Law
Poet and Writer	Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke Isaac Rosenberg Robert Graves Henri Barbusse Romain Rolland
Science and Medicine	Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Paul Langevin Charles de Lorme Alexis Carrel

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