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Bonar Law

Born: 16 September 1858, Kingston, New Brunswick

Died: 30 October 1923

Member of Privy Council - 1911

son of Eliza Kidston

son of Rev James Law

husband of Annie Pitcairn Robley

Gilbertfield School, Hamilton

Glasgow High School

Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade	1902	1906
Leader of HM Opposition	13 November 1911	15 May 1915
Secretary of State for the Colonies	15 May 1915	10 December 1916
Leader of the House of Commons	1916	March 1921
Chancellor of the Exchequer	10 December 1916	10 January 1919
Lord Privy Seal	10 January 1919	March 1921
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	23 October 1922	22 May 1923

4 October 1900	Glasgow Blackfriars & Hutchesontown	Conservative Party	4,130	56.81
18 January 1906	Glasgow Blackfriars & Hutchesontown	Conservative Party	2,974	35.76
15 May 1906	Dulwich	Conservative Party	6,709	55.27
17 January 1910	Dulwich	Conservative Party	8,472	58.32
3 December 1910	Manchester North West	Conservative Party	5,114	47.92
27 March 1911	Bootle	Conservative Party	9,976	56.18
14 December 1918	Glasgow Central	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	17,653	78.85
15 November 1922	Glasgow Central	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,437	49.99
30 October 1923 Death of Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law.