Andrew Bonar Law
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The Right Honourable Andrew Bonar Law |
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 23 October 1922 – 22 May 1923 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | David Lloyd George |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Baldwin |
| Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 23 October 1922 – 22 May 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Baldwin |
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In office 10 December 1916 – 23 March 1921 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Succeeded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Leader of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 23 October 1922 – 22 May 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Baldwin |
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In office 13 November 1911 – 21 March 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Arthur Balfour |
| Succeeded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 10 January 1919 – 1 April 1921 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Crawford |
| Succeeded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 10 December 1916 – 10 January 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Reginald McKenna |
| Succeeded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
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In office 25 May 1915 – 10 December 1916 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Harcourt |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Long |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 13 November 1911 – 25 May 1915 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | Arthur Balfour |
| Succeeded by | Sir Edward Carson |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | |
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In office 11 July 1902 – 5 December 1905 |
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| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Dudley |
| Succeeded by | Hudson Kearley |
| Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central |
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In office 15 December 1918 – 30 October 1923 |
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| Preceded by | John Mackintosh MacLeod |
| Succeeded by | William Alexander |
| Member of Parliament for Bootle |
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In office 28 March 1911 – 15 December 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Myles Sandys |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Royden |
| Member of Parliament for Dulwich |
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In office 16 May 1906 – 20 December 1910 |
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| Preceded by | Frederick Rutherfoord Harris |
| Succeeded by | Sir Frederick Hall |
| Member of Parliament for Glasgow Blackfriars |
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In office 25 October 1900 – 13 January 1906 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Dryburgh Provand |
| Succeeded by | George Nicoll Barnes |
| Personal details | |
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16 September 1858 Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick (now part of Canada) |
| Died | 30 October 1923 (aged 65) Kensington, London, England, UK |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Robley (m. 1891; her death 1909) |
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| Parents | James Law Eliza Kidston |
| Profession | Iron merchant |
| Religion | Free Church of Scotland |
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| a. ^ Office vacant from 25 May 1915 to 19 October 1915 | |
Andrew Bonar Law, PC (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923), commonly called Bonar Law (/ˈbɒnər ˈlɔː/), was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister. Born in the colony of New Brunswick (now in Canada), he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles.
Law was of Scottish and Ulster Scots descent, and having moved back to Scotland in 1870, he left school aged sixteen to work in the iron industry, becoming a wealthy man by the age of thirty. He entered Parliament at the 1900 general election, relatively late in life for a front-rank politician, and was made a junior minister, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, in 1902. Law joined the Shadow Cabinet in opposition after the 1906 election. In 1911 he was appointed a Privy Councillor, and stood for the vacant party leadership. Despite never having served in the Cabinet, and despite trailing third after Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain, Law became leader when the two frontrunners withdrew rather than risk a draw splitting the party.
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