Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Britain's first and only Radical prime minister
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He was the first person officially given the title "Prime Minister" in the Order of Preference.[1]
Life and work
Born Henry Campbell in Glasgow in 1836, he added the surname Bannerman in 1871 upon inheriting an estate from his uncle.[2][3] Campbell-Bannerman married Sarah Charlotte Bruce in 1860, and she encouraged him to enter politics.[1] He rose quickly through ministerial ranks, serving as Financial Secretary to the War Office and later as Secretary of State for War.[4][5] He became Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in 1899.[6]
Campbell-Bannerman led the Liberals to a landslide victory in the 1906 general election, winning an overall majority.[7][1] His government passed the Trade Disputes Act 1906 and the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906.[8] His schooling took place at the High School of Glasgow, followed by studies at the University of Glasgow and later at Trinity College, Cambridge.[9][1] In November 1868, he won the Stirling Burghs seat as a Liberal candidate and continued to represent that constituency for about forty years.[10][1]
What the cited sources add
A 2021 newspaper article notes that Campbell-Bannerman is not much remembered now, despite being a great Scottish Liberal politician.[1] The article reports that he introduced an eight-hour day for munitions workers and found no loss of production.[1] A 1906 publication reprints speeches from a women's suffrage deputation that Campbell-Bannerman received on May 19, 1906.[11] According to the same article, his father, a merchant, served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1840 and 1843.[1]
The houseandheritage.org account records that in 1872 he reluctantly accepted the additional surname Bannerman as a condition for inheriting the Hunton Court estate.[12]
References
- Macpherson, "Back in the day – Remembering Glasgow's only PM and the last to die in Number 10", Sunday National, 5 September 2021, p. 11 in SevenDays supplement. facts only, no text reused. thenational.scot
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2008, online (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage", 1898, p. 1634; A wonderful country house just outside London that was once home to a Tudor rebel and one of the last Liberal prime ministers, countrylife.co.uk; John Wilson, CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (London, 1973), p. 46 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell- (1836–1908), prime minister | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", 2004; Macpherson, "Back in the day – Remembering Glasgow's only PM and the last to die in Number 10", Sunday National, 5 September 2021, p. 11 in SevenDays supplement (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Macpherson, "Back in the day – Remembering Glasgow's only PM and the last to die in Number 10", Sunday National, 5 September 2021, p. 11 in SevenDays supplement; Spender, Volume I, p. 142.; Wilson, p. 187. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: J. E. Tyler, "Campbell-Bannerman and the Liberal Imperialists, (1906–1908)." History 23.91 (1938): 254–262. online; Macpherson, "Back in the day – Remembering Glasgow's only PM and the last to die in Number 10", Sunday National, 5 September 2021, p. 11 in SevenDays supplement (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Michael Ratcliffe, review of Asquith by Stephen Koss, published by Allen Lane, 1976: The Times. London. 26 August 1976. p. 9. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Women's Suffrage Deputation: Received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, on Saturday, May 19th, 1906, at the Foreign Office", exhibits.library.duke.edu, 1906 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry Campbell-Bannerman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Macpherson, "Back in the day – Remembering Glasgow's only PM and the last to die in Number 10", Sunday National, 5 September 2021, p. 11 in SevenDays supplement (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Women's Suffrage Deputation: Received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, on Saturday, May 19th, 1906, at the Foreign Office", exhibits.library.duke.edu, 1906. facts only, no text reused. exhibits.library.duke.edu
- HUNTON COURT, houseandheritage.org. facts only, no text reused. houseandheritage.org
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