The Prime Ministers (eBook, ePUB)

Volume the Second: From Lord John Russell to Edward Heath
Redaktion: Thal, Herbert van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 sensible way to study the development of the office is by reading the biographies of its holders.

Originally published in 1974 (volume 1) and 1975 (volume 2), beginning with Robert Walpole and including Edward Heath, the holder at the time, there had been forty-seven Prime Ministers in all. Yet there had been no book devoted exclusively to recording their characters, actions and achievements, to which the student or the interested general reader could turn for immediate information, even if they did not seek to read the whole 250-year record - in itself a fascinating story for the politically minded. To fill this gap leading political historians of the time were invited to contribute papers, each in their own special period, and we are presented, as a result, with a complete gallery of Prime Ministers, each paper revealing the constant interaction of personality and circumstance, and the whole collection providing an impressive record of the way the premiership changed with its various incumbents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040419175
• Artikelnr.: 74364460

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.