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The Prime Ministers: Volume the Second: From Lord John Russell to Edward Heath book cover

1st Edition

The Prime Ministers Volume the Second: From Lord John Russell to Edward Heath

Edited By Herbert van Thal Copyright 1975
444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge
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There is really in law no such office as that of Prime Minister. No statute grants him or her powers. Even the name came into official use only in 1878, and the Prime Minister as such only became known to the law in 1905. The office of Prime Minister has in fact been based on convention and has been shaped by personal and political factors; it is what the holder makes of it and that is why a... Read more

Introduction – The Prime Minister, 1835–1974 Robert Blake.  1. Lord John Russell (1846–52; 1865–66) John Prest  2. The Earl of Derby (1852; 1858–59; 1866–68) Denys Forrest  3. The Earl of Aberdeen (1852–55) Norman McCord  4. Viscount Palmerston (1855–58; 1859–65) Jasper Ridley  5. Benjamin Disraeli (1868; 1874–80) John Vincent  6. W. E. Gladstone (1868–74; 1880–85; 1886; 1892–94) E. J. Feuchtwanger  7. Lord Salisbury (1885; 1886–92; 1895–1902) Alan Palmer  8. The Earl of Rosebery (1894–95) Robert Rhodes James  9. A. J. Balfour (1902–05) Kenneth Young  10. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–08) John Wilson  11. H. H. Asquith (1908–16) Joseph Grimond  12. David Lloyd George (1916–22) Peter Lowe  13. Andrew Bonar Law (1922–23) John Ramsden  14. Stanley Baldwin (1923; 1924–29; 1935–37) Keith Middlemas  15. James Ramsay MacDonald (1924; 1929–35) Keith Robbins  16. Neville Chamberlain (1937–40) Christopher Cook  17. Sir Winston Churchill (1940–45; 1951–55) M. R. D. Foot  18. Clement Attlee (1945–51) Richard Rose  19. Sir Anthony Eden (1955–57) Anthony Nutting  20. Harold Macmillan (1957–63) Duncan Crow  21. Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1963–64) Iain Sproat  22. Harold Wilson (1964–70; 1974–) Gerard Noel  23. Edward Heath (1970–74) Andrew Roth.  Notes on the Authors.

Biography

Herbert van Thal (1904–1983) was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist.

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