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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " Campbell-Bannerman " redirects here . For other people with this name , see Campbell-Bannerman ( surname ) . The Right Honourable Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB Portrait by George Charles Beresford , 1902 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom In office 5 December 1905 - 3 April 1908 Monarch Edward VII Preceded by Arthur Balfour Succeeded by H. H. Asquith Leader of the Opposition In office 6 February 1899 - 5 December 1905 Monarchs Victoria Edward VII Prime Minister Robert Cecil , 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour Preceded by William Vernon Harcourt Succeeded by Arthur Balfour Leader of the Liberal Party In office 6 February 1899 - 22 April 1908 Preceded by William Vernon Harcourt Succeeded by H. H. Asquith Secretary of State for War In office 18 August 1892 - 21 June 1895 Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Archibald Primrose , 5th Earl of Rosebery Preceded by Edward Stanhope Succeeded by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice , 5th Marquess of Lansdowne In office 6 February 1886 - 20 July 1886 Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Preceded by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy , 1st Earl of Cranbrook Succeeded by William Henry Smith Chief Secretary for Ireland In office 23 October 1884 - 25 June 1885 Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Preceded by George Otto Trevelyan Succeeded by William Hart Dyke Additional positions Personal details Born Henry Campbell 7 September 1836 Kelvinside House , Glasgow , Scotland Died 22 April 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 Downing Street , London , England Resting place Meigle Parish Church , Perthshire Political party Liberal Spouse Charlotte Bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) Education University of Glasgow Trinity College , Cambridge Profession Merchant Signature Cursive signature in ink Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ( né Campbell ; 7 September 1836 - 22 April 1908 ) was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908 . He also was Secretary of State for War twice , in the cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery . He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called the " Prime Minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . He remains the only person to date to hold the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time , and the last Liberal leader to gain a UK parliamentary majority . Known colloquially as " CB " , Campbell-Bannerman firmly believed in free trade , Irish Home Rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . A. J. A. Morris , in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , called him " Britain 's first and only Radical prime minister " . Following a general-election defeat in 1900 , Campbell-Bannerman went on to lead the Liberal Party to a landslide victory over the Conservative Party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the Liberals gained an overall majority in the House of Commons . The government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . Campbell-Bannerman resigned as prime minister in April 1908 due to ill-health and was replaced by his chancellor , H. H. Asquith . He died 19 days later - the only prime minister to die in the official residence , 10 Downing Street . Early life Henry Campbell-Bannerman was born on 7 September 1836 at Kelvinside House in Glasgow as Henry Campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to James Campbell of Stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife Janet Bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . James Campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in Glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , William Campbell , to found J.& W. Campbell & Co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . In 1831 James Campbell was elected as a member of Glasgow Town Council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a Conservative candidate for the Glasgow constituency . He served as the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1840 to 1843 . Campbell-Bannerman was educated at the High School of Glasgow ( 1845-1847 ) , the University of Glasgow ( 1851-1853 ) , and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1854-1858 ) , where he achieved a Third-Class Degree in the Classical Tripos . After graduating , he joined the family firm of J. & W. Campbell & Co. , based in Glasgow 's Ingram Street , and was made a partner in the firm in 1860 . He was also commissioned as a lieutenant into the 53rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps , which was recruited from employees of the firm , and in 1867 was promoted to captain . In 1871 , Henry Campbell became Henry Campbell-Bannerman , the addition of the surname Bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , Henry Bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of Hunton Lodge ( now Hunton Court ) in Hunton , Kent . He did not like the " horrid long name " that resulted and invited friends to call him " C.B . " instead . Henry Campbell-Bannerman had an older brother , James Alexander Campbell , who in 1876 inherited their father 's 4000-acre Stracathro estate . He served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1880 to 1906 . Marriage In 1860 , Campbell-Bannerman married Sarah Charlotte Bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 Clairmont Gardens in the Park district of the West End of Glasgow . The couple never had any children . Campbell-Bannerman and Charlotte were an exceptionally close couple throughout their marriage ; in the words of one historian , they " shared every thought and possible moment " . Charlotte may have been the person who mostly encouraged Campbell-Bannerman to stand for election , given his local profile . For several years an aunt occupied the big house at Hunton which Campbell-Bannerman had inherited in 1871 . For their country residence , Campbell-Bannerman and his wife lived elsewhere , including Gennings Park , which they did not leave until 1887 . They first occupied Hunton Lodge in 1894 . Campbell-Bannerman spoke French , German and Italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in Europe , usually in France and at the spa town of Marienbad in Bohemia . Campbell-Bannerman had a deep appreciation for French culture , and particularly enjoyed the novels of Anatole France . They also had an occasional home at Belmont Castle , Meigle , in Scotland . Campbell-Bannerman and his wife were both reported to be enormous eaters , and in their later years each weighed nearly 20 stone ( 130 kg ; 280 lb ) . Charlotte died on 30 August 1906 . After losing her , Campbell-Bannerman was said to ' never be the same ' . Member of Parliament In April 1868 , at the age of thirty-one , Campbell-Bannerman stood as a Liberal candidate in a by-election for the Stirling Burghs constituency , narrowly losing to fellow Liberal John Ramsay . However , at the general election in November of that year , Campbell-Bannerman defeated Ramsay and was elected to the House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs , a constituency that he would go on to represent for almost forty years . Campbell-Bannerman rose quickly through the ministerial ranks , being appointed as Financial Secretary to the War Office in Gladstone 's first government in November 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under Edward Cardwell , the Secretary of State for War . When Cardwell was raised to the peerage , Campbell-Bannerman became the Liberal government 's chief spokesman on defence matters in the House of Commons . He was appointed to the same position from 1880 to 1882 in Gladstone 's second government , and after serving as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty between 1882 and 1884 , Campbell-Bannerman was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1884 , an important role with ongoing Home Rule debates . In Gladstone 's third and fourth governments , in 1886 and 1892 to 1894 respectively , as well as the Earl of Rosebery 's government from 1894 to 1895 , Campbell-Bannerman served as the Secretary of State for War . His only military experience was thirty years earlier with the 53rd Lanarkshire Rifles Volunteers . During his time in the War office , he introduced an experimental eight-hour day for the workers at the Woolwich Arsenal munitions factory . The results demonstrated that there was no loss in production . Therefore , Campbell-Bannerman extended the eight-hour day to the Army Clothing Department . He persuaded the Duke of Cambridge , the Queen 's cousin , to resign as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces . This earned Campbell-Bannerman a knighthood in the form of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( GCB ) in Rosebery 's 1895 Prime Minister 's Resignation Honours . In 1895 , Campbell unwittingly caused the fall of Rosebery 's ministry , when the Earl 's government lost a vote over C.B. 's handling of cordite reserves . Unionist MPs unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to Rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of Lord Salisbury . After the 1895 general election , Campbell-Bannerman lobbied strongly to succeed Arthur Peel as Speaker of the House of Commons , in part because he sought a less stressful role in public life . Rosebery , backed by the Liberal Leader in the Commons , Sir William Harcourt , refused since Campbell-Bannerman was viewed as indispensable to the Government 's front-bench team in the lower House . Leader of the Liberal Party Campbell-Bannerman caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair , 1899 On 6 February 1899 , Campbell-Bannerman succeeded William Vernon Harcourt as Leader of the Liberals in the House of Commons , and Leader of the Opposition . The Boer War of 1899 split the Liberal Party into Imperialist and Pro-Boer factions , with CB strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . Campbell-Bannerman faced the difficult task of holding together the strongly divided party , which was subsequently and unsurprisingly defeated in the " khaki election " of 1900 . Campbell-Bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the National Reform Union in June 1901 and shortly after meeting Emily Hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the British in the Boer War as " methods of barbarism " . The Liberal Party was later able to unify over its opposition to the Education Act 1902 and the Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902 , in which Britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . The Conservative Government of Arthur Balfour had threatened countervailing duties and subsidies of West Indian sugar producers as a negotiating tool . The convention 's intent was to lead to the gradual phasing out of export bounties , and Britain would then forbid the importation of subsidised sugar . In a speech to the Cobden Club on 28 November 1902 , Campbell-Bannerman denounced the convention as threatening the sovereignty of Britain . It means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a Vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the Britisher is only one out of ten , and the House of Commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . ( " Shame . " ) Sir , of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest . Campbell-Bannerman in 1904 However , it was Joseph Chamberlain 's proposals for Tariff Reform in May 1903 that provided the Liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . Chamberlain 's proposals dominated politics through the rest of 1903 up until the general election of 1906 . Campbell-Bannerman , like other Liberals , held an unshakeable belief in free trade . In a speech at Bolton on 15 October 1903 , he explained in greater detail the reasoning behind Liberal support for free trade . We are satisfied that it is right because it gives the freest play to individual energy and initiative and character and the largest liberty both to producer and consumer . We say that trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course , and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles.... We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen . That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch , veiled and unveiled , one-sided or reciprocal . I oppose it in any form . Besides we have experience of fifty years , during which our prosperity has become the envy of the world . In 1903 , the Liberal Party 's Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone negotiated a pact with Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Representation Committee to withdraw Liberal candidates to help LRC candidates in certain seats , in return for LRC withdrawal in other seats to help Liberal candidates . This attempt to undermine and outflank the Conservatives , which would prove to be successful , formed what became known as the " Gladstone-MacDonald pact " . Campbell-Bannerman got on well with Labour leaders , and he said in 1903 " we are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour . We have too few of them in the House of Commons " . Despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the Labour movement , he was not a socialist . One biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . Prime Minister ( 1905-1908 ) Further information : Liberal government , 1905-1915 Appointment and cabinet Sketch of Campbell-Bannerman The Liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in December 1905 when Arthur Balfour resigned as prime minister , prompting Edward VII to invite Campbell-Bannerman to form a minority government as the first Liberal prime minister of the 20th century . At 69 , he was the oldest person to become prime minister for the first time in the 20th century , though Balfour had hoped that Campbell-Bannerman would not be able to form a strong government , ushering in a general election that he could win . Campbell-Bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " Relugas Compact " between H. H. Asquith , Edward Grey and Richard Haldane , who planned to force him into the House of Lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing Asquith to govern as Leader of the House of Commons . Campbell-Bannerman saw off both of these issues by offering the positions of chancellor of the exchequer , foreign secretary and secretary of state for war to Asquith , Grey and Haldane respectively , which all three accepted , whilst immediately dissolving Parliament and calling a general election . In his first public speech as prime minister on 22 December 1905 , Campbell-Bannerman launched the Liberal election campaign , focusing on the traditional Liberal platform of " peace , retrenchment and reform " : Expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . Militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . For my own part , I do not believe that we should have been confronted by the spectre of protection if it had not been for the South African war . Depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . Helped by the Lib-Lab pact that he had negotiated , the splits in the Conservatives over free trade and the positive election campaign that he fought , the Liberals won by a landslide , gaining 216 seats . The Conservatives saw their number of seats more than halve , and Arthur Balfour , now as Leader of the Opposition , lost his Manchester East seat to the Liberals . Campbell-Bannerman was the last Liberal to lead his party to an absolute majority in the House of Commons . Now with a majority of 125 , Campbell-Bannerman was returned to Downing Street as a considerably-strengthened Prime Minister . The defeat of the Relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in British political history " . Whereas in the past it had never been used formally , Campbell-Bannerman was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be given official use of the title " Prime Minister " , a standard that continues to the present day . In 1907 , by virtue of being the member of Parliament with the longest continuous service , Campbell-Bannerman became the Father of the House , the only serving British prime minister to do so . Social reforms In his election address , Campbell-Bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . The Liberal Imperialist Richard Haldane claimed that Campbell-Bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old Tory , C.B. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . However the historian A. J. A . Morris disagreed with this judgment , stating that Campbell-Bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a Gladstonian Liberal who favoured retrenchment in public expenditure that was perhaps at odds with any ambitious scheme of social reform . Another later biographer , John Wilson , called Campbell-Bannerman a moderate social reformer , stating that Campbell-Bannerman favoured a better deal for the poor and the workers but like Gladstone he was opposed to too much state interference . He was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our Constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . CB said that ' sunshine must be allowed to stream in , the water and the food must be kept pure and unadulterated , the streets light and clean ' . The government of Campbell-Bannerman allowed local authorities to provide free school meals ( though this was not compulsory ) and also strengthened the power of the trade unions with their Trade Disputes Act 1906 . The Workmen 's Compensation Act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . The Probation of Offenders Act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . Under Campbell-Bannerman 's successor , H. H. Asquith , many far-reaching reforms were implemented , but Campbell-Bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation from representatives of 25 women 's suffragist groups ( representing 1,000 women ) though he said that his cabinet would object to this change . House of Lords reforms In the matter of House of Lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , Campbell-Bannerman proposed on 26 June 1907 that the Lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the Commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the Lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a Second Chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the Long Parliament during the English Civil War . In essence , he maintained that the predominance of the Commons must prevail , without any appeal to the constituencies ( i.e. a further general election ) . William Sharp McKechnie characterised this as an " untried one-chambered legislature " and stated that " it could only be carried out by some revolutionary procedure . " Punch cartoon dated 19 February 1908 , making fun of the relationship between House of Commons ( Henry Campbell-Bannerman ) and House of Lords ( Lord Lansdowne ) . Foreign affairs See also : 1907 Imperial Conference Campbell-Bannerman 's first speech as prime minister endorsed the intent of the Hague Convention of 1907 to limit armaments . In March 1907 , he published " The Hague Conference and the Limitation of Armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between Germany and Britain . His effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian Barbara Tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " The 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . In 1906 , Campbell-Bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident with the Russian government when he responded to Tsar Nicholas II 's dissolution of the Duma with a speech in which he declared , " The Duma is dead ; long live the Duma ! " Nonetheless , his premiership saw the Entente with Russia in 1907 , brought about principally by the Foreign Secretary , Edward Grey . In January 1906 Grey sanctioned staff talks between Britain and France 's army and navy but without any binding commitment . These included the plan to send one hundred thousand British soldiers to France within two weeks of a Franco-German war . Campbell-Bannerman was not informed of these at first but when Grey told him about them he gave them his blessing . This was the origin of the British Expeditionary Force that would be sent to France in 1914 at the start of the Great War with Germany . Campbell-Bannerman did not inform the rest of the Cabinet of these staff talks because there was no binding commitment and because he wanted to preserve the unity of the government . The radical members of the Cabinet such as Lord Loreburn , Lord Morley and Lord Bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the French . Campbell-Bannerman visited France in April 1907 and met the Radical prime minister , Georges Clemenceau . Clemenceau believed that the British would help France in a war with Germany but Campbell-Bannerman told him Britain was in no way committed . He may have been unaware that the staff talks were still ongoing . Not long after this Violet Cecil met Clemenceau and she wrote down what he had said to her about the meeting : Clemenceau said... 'I am totally opposed to you - we both recognise a great danger and you are...reducing your army and weakening your navy . ' ' Ah ' said Bannerman ' but that is for economy ! '... then said that he thought the English ought to have some kind of military service , at which Bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'It comes to this ' said Clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against Germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our War Offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while Italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' Then came the crowning touch of the interview . ' The sentiments of the English people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by England on the continent under any circumstances . ' Clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the British Government , he has done with us . Campbell-Bannerman 's biographer John Wilson has described the meeting as " a clash between two fundamentally different philosophies " . The Liberal journalist and friend of Campbell-Bannerman , F. W. Hirst , claimed that Campbell-Bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the French Entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved Great Britain in so many wars on the Continent . That . . . Grey and Haldane did not inform the Cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and I am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the Liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the European tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . Campbell-Bannerman 's government granted the Boer states , the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony , self-government within the British Empire through an Order in Council so as to bypass the House of Lords . This led to the Union of South Africa in 1910 . The first South African Prime Minister , General Louis Botha , believed that " Campbell-Bannerman 's act had redressed the balance of the Anglo-Boer War , or had , at any rate , given full power to the South Africans themselves to redress it " . The former Boer general , Jan Smuts , wrote to David Lloyd George in 1919 : " My experience in South Africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and Campbell-Bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent British statesmanship " . However the Unionist politician Lord Milner opposed it , saying in August 1907 : " People here - not only Liberals - seem delighted , and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows for having given South Africa back to the Boers . I think it all sheer lunacy " . Campbell-Bannerman 's government * Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Prime Minister , First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons * Robert Reid , 1st Earl Loreburn - Lord Chancellor * Robert Crewe-Milnes , Earl of Crewe - Lord President of the Council * Lord Ripon - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords * H. H. Asquith - Chancellor of the Exchequer * Herbert Gladstone - Secretary of State for the Home Department * Edward Grey - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs * Victor Bruce , 9th Earl of Elgin - Secretary of State for the Colonies * Richard Haldane - Secretary of State for War * John Morley - Secretary of State for India * Edward Marjoribanks , 2nd Baron Tweedmouth - First Lord of the Admiralty * David Lloyd George - President of the Board of Trade * Henry Fowler - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * John Sinclair - Secretary for Scotland * James Bryce - Chief Secretary for Ireland * John Burns - President of the Local Government Board * Charles Wynn-Carington , Earl Carrington - President of the Board of Agriculture * Augustine Birrell - President of the Board of Education * Sydney Buxton - Postmaster-General Changes * January 1907 - Augustine Birrell succeeds Bryce as Irish Secretary . Reginald McKenna succeeds Birrell at the Board of Education . * March 1907 - Lewis Harcourt , the First Commissioner of Works , enters the Cabinet . Retirement and death Not long after he became Father of the House in 1907 , Campbell-Bannerman 's health took a turn for the worse . Following a series of heart attacks , the most serious in November 1907 , he began to fear that he would not be able to survive to the end of his term . He eventually resigned as prime minister on 3 April 1908 , and was succeeded by his Chancellor of the Exchequer , H. H. Asquith . Campbell-Bannerman remained both a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party , and continued to live at 10 Downing Street in the immediate aftermath of his resignation , intending to make other arrangements in the near future . However , his health began to decline at an even quicker pace than before , and he died on 22 April 1908 , nineteen days after his resignation . His last words were " This is not the end of me " . He remains to date the only former prime minister to die within 10 Downing Street . Campbell-Bannerman was buried in the churchyard of Meigle Parish Church , Perthshire , near Belmont Castle , his home since 1887 . A relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial . St Mary 's Church , Hunton ( English Heritage Legacy ID : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet on the nave wall dedicated to Henry Campbell-Bannerman . Legacy Statue of Campbell-Bannerman in Stirling Henry Campbell-Bannerman by Paul Raphael Montford Views of contemporaries On the day of Campbell-Bannerman 's death the flag of the National Liberal Club was lowered to half-mast , the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning . John Redmond , the leader of the Irish Nationalist Party , paid tribute to Campbell-Bannerman by saying that " We all feel that Ireland has lost a brave and considerate friend " . David Lloyd George said on hearing of Campbell-Bannerman 's death : I think it will be felt by the community as a whole as if they had lost a relative . Certainly those who have been associated with him closely for years will feel a deep sense of personal bereavement . I have never met a great public figure since I have been in politics who so completely won the attachment and affection of the men who came into contact with him . He was not merely admired and respected ; he was absolutely loved by us all . I really cannot trust myself to say more . The masses of the people of this country , especially the more unfortunate of them , have lost the best friend they ever had in the high places of the land . His sympathy in all suffering was real , deep , and unaffected . He was truly a great man—a great head and a great heart . He was absolutely the bravest man I ever met in politics . He was entirely free from fear . He was a man of supreme courage . Ireland has certainly lost one of her truest friends , and what is true of Ireland is true of every section of the community of this Empire which has a fight to maintain against powerful foes . In an uncharacteristically emotional speech on 27 April , the day of Campbell-Bannerman 's funeral , his successor H. H. Asquith told the House of Commons : What was the secret of the hold which in these later days he unquestionably had on the admiration and affection of men of all parties and all creeds ? ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender in his sympathies , always disposed to despise victories won in any sphere by mere brute force , an almost passionate lover of peace . And yet we have not seen in our time a man of greater courage— courage not of the defiant or aggressive type , but calm , patient , persistent , indomitable. .. In politics I think he may be fairly described as an idealist in aim , and an optimist by temperament . Great causes appealed to him . He was not ashamed , even on the verge of old age , to see visions and to dream dreams . He had no misgivings as to the future of democracy . He had a single-minded and unquenchable faith in the unceasing progress and the growing unity of mankind... He never put himself forward , yet no one had greater tenacity of purpose . He was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . He was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong Party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . He met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. ..He has gone to his rest , and to-day in this House , of which he was the senior and the most honoured Member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another 's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought , And simple truth his utmost skill ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall ; Lord of himself , though not of lands , And , having nothing , yet hath all . Robert Smillie , the trade unionist and Labour MP , said that , after Gladstone , Campbell-Bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . Views of historians Blue plaque at 6 Grosvenor Place , London Historians agree that in his 28 months as prime minister , Campbell-Bannerman was relatively undistinguished with few significant reforms enacted . Major bills such as plural voting , land reform , and licensing reform were shredded in the Lords . Education Bills of 1906 and 1907 were rejected by both party supporters and Unionist peers . The bills that were passed were either technical or the result of cross-party consensus . Campbell-Bannerman had no apparent plan to circumvent the Lords ' veto and did little to stimulate the social reform program . Campbell-Bannerman was passive and uninvolved in his dealings with the cabinet , leading to diffuse debates and ill-focused methods of handling business . He failed to supervise Grey 's foreign policy , He failed to consult the full cabinet before initiating momentous discussions on defense interests with the French in 1906 . As a result , his competence was severely questioned . However , historians have identified a few positive aspects of his tenure , including laying the foundation for a more effective government under Asquith . He was part of a period of Scottish dominance in the Prime Minister role and he represented Scotland 's full integration into the political realm . Additionally , Campbell-Bannerman was the first Prime Minister with direct business experience and not from a landed , Anglican background . Historian George Dangerfield in 1935 concluded that Campbell-Bannerman 's death " was like the passing of true Liberalism . Henry had believed in Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform , those amiable deities who presided so complacently over large portions of the Victorian era... And now almost the last true worshipper at those large , equivocal altars lay dead " . Campbell-Bannerman held firmly to the Liberal principles of Richard Cobden and William Ewart Gladstone . It was not until Campbell-Bannerman 's departure that the doctrines of New Liberalism came to be implemented . R. B . McCallum stated that " Campbell-Bannerman was of pure Gladstonian vintage and a hero to the Radicals " . Friedrich Hayek said : " Perhaps the government of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman... should be regarded as the last Liberal government of the old type , while under his successor , H. H. Asquith , new experiments in social policy were undertaken which were only doubtfully compatible with the older Liberal principles " . Other historical accounts , however , have portrayed Campbell-Bannerman as a genuine progressive figure . According to one study , Campbell-Bannerman 's views " were broadly those of the party 's centre-left : a belief in individual freedom , a desire to help the disadvantaged , an aversion to imperialism and support for Irish self-government . " During his time as prime minister , Campbell-Bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . As far back as 1903 , Campbell-Bannerman had spoken of the intention of the Liberal Party to do something about the " twelve million people in England were living on the verge of starvation , " During the 1930s , one-time Labour Party leader George Lansbury wrote admiringly of Campbell-Bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word Socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the State . " His bronze bust , sculpted by Paul Raphael Montford , is in Westminster Abbey . There is a blue plaque outside Campbell-Bannerman 's house at 6 Grosvenor Place in London , unveiled in 2008 . Campbell-Bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 Lewis Carroll novel Alice in Wonderland , such as Caroline Lewis 's ( pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie , J. Stafford Ransome , and Michael Henry Temple ) Clara in Blunderland ( 1902 ) and Lost in Blunderland ( 1903 ) . |
| prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] of the united kingdom [PLACE] from 1905 to 1908 " campbell-bannerman " redirects here . for other people [HUMAN GROUP] with this name [NAME] , see campbell-bannerman ( surname [PERSON] ) . the right [PERSON] honourable sir [PERSON] henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman gcb [PERSON] portrait [PERSON] by george charles beresford [PERSON] , 1902 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] of the united kingdom [PLACE] in office [PLACE] 5 december [PERIOD] 1905 - 3 april [PERIOD] 1908 monarch edward vii [PERSON] preceded by arthur balfour [PERSON] succeeded by h. h. asquith [PERSON] leader [PERSON] of the opposition [EVENT] in office [PLACE] 6 february [PERIOD] 1899 - 5 december [PERIOD] 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii [PERSON] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] robert cecil , 3rd marquess [PERSON] of salisbury arthur balfour [PERSON] [PERSON] preceded by william vernon harcourt [PERSON] succeeded by arthur balfour [PERSON] leader [PERSON] of the liberal party [FORCE] in office [PLACE] 6 february [PERIOD] 1899 - 22 april [PERIOD] 1908 preceded by william vernon harcourt [PERSON] succeeded by h. h. asquith [PERSON] secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] in office [PLACE] 18 august [PERIOD] 1892 - 21 june [PERIOD] 1895 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] william ewart gladstone [PERSON] archibald primrose , 5th earl [PERSON] of rosebery [PERSON] preceded by edward stanhope [PERSON] succeeded by henry [PERSON] petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess [PERSON] of lansdowne [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 6 february [PERIOD] 1886 - 20 july 1886 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] william ewart gladstone [PERSON] preceded by gathorne gathorne-hardy , 1st earl [PERSON] of cranbrook [UNKNOWN] succeeded by william henry [PERSON] smith chief secretary [PERSON] [PERSON] for ireland [PLACE] in office [PLACE] 23 october [PERIOD] 1884 - 25 june [PERIOD] 1885 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] william ewart gladstone [PERSON] preceded by george otto trevelyan [PERSON] succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions [POSITION] personal details born henry campbell [PERSON] 7 september [PERIOD] 1836 kelvinside house [PLACE] , glasgow [INSTITUTION] , scotland [PLACE] died 22 april [PERIOD] 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street [PLACE] , london [PLACE] , england resting place meigle parish church [PERSON] [PERSON] , perthshire [PLACE] political party liberal [PERSON] spouse charlotte [PLACE] bruce [PERSON] ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education [PROCESS] university [INSTITUTION] of glasgow trinity college [INSTITUTION] , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature [PERSON] in ink sir [PERSON] henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman ( né campbell [PERSON] ; 7 september [PERIOD] 1836 - 22 april [PERIOD] 1908 ) was a british [UNKNOWN] statesman [PERSON] and liberal party [FORCE] politician [PERSON] who was prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] of the united kingdom [PLACE] from 1905 to 1908 and leader [PERSON] of the liberal party [FORCE] from 1899 to 1908 . he also was secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] twice , in the cabinets [PERSON] of gladstone [PERSON] and rosebery [PERSON] . he was the first first lord [PERSON] of the treasury [TERM] to be officially called the " prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] " , the term [TERM] only coming into official usage [FORM] five days [PERIOD] after he took office [PLACE] . he remains the only person [PERSON] to date [RESULT] to hold [AGREEMENT] the positions [POSITION] of prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] and father [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] at the same time [PERIOD] , and the last liberal leader [PERSON] to gain a uk parliamentary [UNKNOWN] majority [PROPERTY] . known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade [PERSON] , irish home rule [RULE] and the improvement [AGREEMENT] of social conditions [CONDITION] , including reduced working hours [PERIOD] . a. j. a. morris [PERSON] , in the oxford dictionary [PERSON] of national biography [PERSON] , called him " britain [PLACE] 's first and only radical prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] " . following a general-election defeat [ACT] in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party [FORCE] to a landslide victory [PERSON] over the conservative party [FORCE] at the 1906 general election [POWER] - the last election [POWER] in which the liberals [PERSON] gained an overall majority [PROPERTY] in the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] . the government [GOVERNMENT] he subsequently led passed legislation [PERSON] to ensure trade unions [PERSON] could not be liable for damages [EVENT] incurred during strike action [ACTION] , introduced free school meals [PERSON] for all children [PERSON] , and empowered local authorities [UNKNOWN] to purchase agricultural land [LAND] from private landlords [PERSON] . campbell-bannerman resigned as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] in april [PERIOD] 1908 due to ill-health and was replaced by his chancellor [PERSON] , h. h. asquith [PERSON] . he died 19 days [PERIOD] later - the only prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] to die in the official residence [PLACE] , 10 downing street [PLACE] . early life [EVENT] henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september [PERIOD] 1836 at kelvinside house [PLACE] in glasgow [INSTITUTION] as henry campbell [PERSON] , the second son [PERSON] and youngest of the six children [PERSON] born to james campbell [PERSON] of stracathro [UNKNOWN] ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman [PERSON] ( 1799-1873 ) . james campbell [PERSON] had started work [ACTIVITY] at a young age [PROPERTY] in the clothing trade [PERSON] in glasgow [INSTITUTION] , before in 1817 going into partnership [PERIOD] with his brother [PERSON] , william campbell [PERSON] , to found j.& w. campbell [PERSON] & co. , a warehousing [ACT] , general wholesale [UNKNOWN] and retail drapery business [STATE] . in 1831 james campbell [PERSON] was elected as a member [PERSON] of glasgow town [PLACE] council [HUMAN GROUP] and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections [POWER] he stood as a conservative candidate [AMOUNT] for the glasgow constituency [PERSON] . he served as the lord provost [PERSON] of glasgow [INSTITUTION] from 1840 to 1843 . campbell-bannerman was educated at the high school [INSTITUTION] of glasgow [INSTITUTION] ( 1845-1847 ) , the university [INSTITUTION] of glasgow [INSTITUTION] ( 1851-1853 ) , and trinity college [INSTITUTION] , cambridge [PERSON] ( 1854-1858 ) , where he achieved a third-class degree in the classical tripos [UNKNOWN] . after graduating , he joined the family firm [INSTITUTION] of j. & w. campbell [PERSON] & co. , based in glasgow [INSTITUTION] 's ingram [PERSON] street [PLACE] , and was made a partner [GROUP] in the firm [INSTITUTION] in 1860 . he was also commissioned as a lieutenant [PERSON] into the 53rd lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps [PLACE] , which was recruited from employees [PERSON] of the firm [INSTITUTION] , and in 1867 was promoted to captain . in 1871 , henry campbell [PERSON] became henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman , the addition [PERSON] of the surname bannerman [PERSON] being a requirement [PERSON] of the will [UNKNOWN] of his uncle [PERSON] , henry bannerman [PERSON] , from whom in that year [PERIOD] he had inherited the estate [ESTATE] of hunton lodge [PERSON] ( now hunton court [PERSON] ) in hunton [PERSON] , kent [PLACE] . he did not like the " horrid long name [NAME] " that resulted and invited friends [PERSON] to call him " c.b [UNKNOWN] . " instead . henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman had an older brother [PERSON] , james alexander campbell [PERSON] , who in 1876 inherited their father [PERSON] 's 4000-acre stracathro estate [ESTATE] . he served as the conservative member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for glasgow [INSTITUTION] and aberdeen universities [PERSON] from 1880 to 1906 . marriage [ACT] in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte [PLACE] bruce [PERSON] , and he and his new bride [PERSON] set up house [PLACE] at 6 clairmont gardens [PERSON] in the park district [PLACE] of the west end [UNKNOWN] of glasgow [INSTITUTION] . the couple [GROUP] never had any children [PERSON] . campbell-bannerman and charlotte [PLACE] were an exceptionally close couple [GROUP] throughout their marriage [ACT] ; in the words [WORD] of one historian [PLACE] , they " shared every thought [UNKNOWN] and possible moment [PERIOD] " . charlotte [PLACE] may [PERIOD] have been the person [PERSON] who mostly encouraged campbell-bannerman to stand for election [POWER] , given his local profile [RANK] . for several years [PERIOD] an aunt [EVENT] occupied the big house [PLACE] at hunton [PERSON] which campbell-bannerman had inherited in 1871 . for their country [PLACE] residence [PLACE] , campbell-bannerman and his wife [PERSON] lived elsewhere , including gennings park [PLACE] , which they did not leave until 1887 . they first occupied hunton lodge [PERSON] in 1894 . campbell-bannerman spoke french [PLACE] , german and italian fluently , and every summer [PERSON] he and his wife [PERSON] spent a couple [GROUP] of months [PERIOD] in europe [PLACE] , usually in france [PLACE] and at the spa town [PLACE] of marienbad [PLACE] in bohemia [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman had a deep appreciation [PERSON] for french [PLACE] culture [STUDY] , and particularly enjoyed the novels [EVENT] of anatole france [PLACE] . they also had an occasional home [PLACE] at belmont castle [PERSON] , meigle [PERSON] , in scotland [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman and his wife [PERSON] were both reported to be enormous eaters [EVENT] , and in their later years [PERIOD] each weighed nearly 20 stone [PERSON] ( 130 kg ; 280 lb ) . charlotte [PLACE] died on 30 august [PERIOD] 1906 . after losing her , campbell-bannerman was said to ' never be the same ' . member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] in april [PERIOD] 1868 , at the age [PROPERTY] of thirty-one , campbell-bannerman stood as a liberal [PERSON] candidate [AMOUNT] in a by-election for the stirling burghs constituency [PERSON] , narrowly losing to fellow liberal john ramsay [PERSON] . however , at the general election [POWER] in november [PERIOD] of that year [PERIOD] , campbell-bannerman defeated ramsay [PERSON] and was elected to the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] as the liberal member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for stirling burghs [PERSON] , a constituency [PERSON] that he would go on to represent for almost forty years [PERIOD] . campbell-bannerman rose quickly through the ministerial ranks [RANK] , being appointed as financial secretary [PERSON] to the war office [PLACE] in gladstone [PERSON] 's first government [GOVERNMENT] in november [PERIOD] 1871 , serving in this position [POSITION] until 1874 under edward cardwell [PERSON] , the secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] . when cardwell [PERSON] was raised to the peerage [COLLECTION] , campbell-bannerman became the liberal government [GOVERNMENT] 's chief spokesman [PERSON] on defence matters [STATE] in the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] . he was appointed to the same position [POSITION] from 1880 to 1882 in gladstone [PERSON] 's second government [GOVERNMENT] , and after serving as parliamentary [UNKNOWN] and financial secretary [PERSON] to the admiralty [FORCE] between 1882 and 1884 , campbell-bannerman was promoted to the cabinet [PERSON] as chief secretary [PERSON] for ireland [PLACE] in 1884 , an important role [ROLE] with ongoing home rule [RULE] debates [STATE] . in gladstone [PERSON] 's third and fourth governments [GOVERNMENT] , in 1886 and 1892 to 1894 respectively , as well as the earl [PERSON] of rosebery [PERSON] 's government [GOVERNMENT] from 1894 to 1895 , campbell-bannerman served as the secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] . his only military experience [EFFECT] was thirty years [PERIOD] earlier with the 53rd lanarkshire rifles volunteers [UNKNOWN] . during his time [PERIOD] in the war office [PLACE] , he introduced an experimental eight-hour day [PERIOD] for the workers [UNKNOWN] at the woolwich arsenal munitions factory [EVENT] . the results [RESULT] demonstrated that there was no loss [PERSON] in production [OCCURRENCE] . therefore , campbell-bannerman extended the eight-hour day [PERIOD] to the army clothing department [PERSON] . he persuaded the duke [PERSON] of cambridge [PERSON] , the queen [PERSON] 's cousin [PERSON] , to resign as commander-in-chief of the british armed forces [FORCE] . this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood [PERSON] in the form [FORM] of a knight grand cross [PERSON] of the order [GARMENT] of the bath [PLACE] ( gcb [PERSON] ) in rosebery [PERSON] 's 1895 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] 's resignation honours [UNKNOWN] . in 1895 , campbell [PERSON] unwittingly caused the fall [PERSON] of rosebery [PERSON] 's ministry [INSTITUTION] , when the earl [PERSON] 's government [GOVERNMENT] lost a vote [ACT] over c.b. 's handling [AMOUNT] of cordite reserves [UNKNOWN] . unionist mps [UNKNOWN] unexpectedly forced a successful motion [ACTION] of censure [ACT] , and the failure [ABSTRACT ENTITY] led to rosebery [PERSON] 's resignation [EVENT] and the return [FORM] to power [POWER] of lord salisbury [PERSON] . after the 1895 general election [POWER] , campbell-bannerman lobbied strongly to succeed arthur peel [PERSON] as speaker [PROCESS] of the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] , in part because he sought a less stressful role [ROLE] in public [UNKNOWN] life [EVENT] . rosebery [PERSON] , backed by the liberal leader [PERSON] in the commons [PLACE] , sir william harcourt [PERSON] , refused since campbell-bannerman was viewed as indispensable to the government [GOVERNMENT] 's front-bench team [EVENT] in the lower house [PLACE] . leader [PERSON] of the liberal party [FORCE] campbell-bannerman caricatured by spy [RESOURCE] for vanity fair [PERSON] , 1899 on 6 february [PERIOD] 1899 , campbell-bannerman succeeded william vernon harcourt [PERSON] as leader [PERSON] of the liberals [PERSON] in the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] , and leader [PERSON] of the opposition [EVENT] . the boer war [EVENT] of 1899 split the liberal party [FORCE] into imperialist [PERSON] and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use [USE] of concentration camps [FORCE] as ' methods [RANK] of barbarism [STATE] ' . campbell-bannerman faced the difficult task [EVENT] of holding together the strongly divided party [FORCE] , which was subsequently and unsurprisingly defeated in the " khaki election [POWER] " of 1900 . campbell-bannerman caused particular friction [FORCE] within his own party [FORCE] when in a speech [SPEECH] to the national reform [AMOUNT] union [PLACE] in june [PERIOD] 1901 and shortly after meeting [ACTIVITY] emily hobhouse [PERSON] , he described the concentration camps [FORCE] set up by the british [UNKNOWN] in the boer war [EVENT] as " methods [RANK] of barbarism [STATE] " . the liberal party [FORCE] was later able to unify over its opposition [EVENT] to the education act [ACT] 1902 and the brussels sugar [SUGAR] convention [ARTIFACT] of 1902 , in which britain [PLACE] and nine other nations [INSTANCE] attempted to stabilise world sugar [SUGAR] prices [AMOUNT] by setting up a commission [INSTANCE] to investigate export bounties [RESULT] and decide on penalties [INSTANCE] . the conservative government [GOVERNMENT] of arthur balfour [PERSON] had threatened countervailing duties [ACT] and subsidies [MONEY] of west indian sugar [SUGAR] producers [PERSON] as a negotiating tool [TOOL] . the convention [ARTIFACT] 's intent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] was to lead to the gradual [STATE] phasing out of export bounties [RESULT] , and britain [PLACE] would then forbid the importation [PERSON] of subsidised sugar [SUGAR] . in a speech [SPEECH] to the cobden club [INSTITUTION] on 28 november [PERIOD] 1902 , campbell-bannerman denounced the convention [ARTIFACT] as threatening the sovereignty [PLACE] of britain [PLACE] . it means that we abandon our fiscal independence [STATE] , together with our free-trade ways [UNKNOWN] ; that we subside [UNKNOWN] into the tenth part of a vehmgericht [UNKNOWN] which is to direct us what sugar [SUGAR] is to be countervailed , at what rate [RATE] per cent [QUANTITY] . we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty [RESULT] , and how much for the tariff [PERSON] being in excess [AMOUNT] of the convention tariff [PERSON] ; and this being the established order [GARMENT] of things [ACTIVITY] , the british chancellor [PERSON] of the exchequer [AMOUNT] in his robes [ROOM] obeys the orders [GARMENT] that he receives from this foreign convention [ARTIFACT] , in which the britisher [UNKNOWN] is only one out of ten , and the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] humbly submits to the whole [UNKNOWN] transaction [QUANTITY] . ( " shame [PERSON] . " ) sir [PERSON] , of all the insane schemes [FIGURE] ever offered to a free country [PLACE] as a boon [PERSON] this is surely the maddest [UNKNOWN] . campbell-bannerman in 1904 however , it was joseph chamberlain [PERSON] 's proposals [ABSTRACT ENTITY] for tariff reform [AMOUNT] in may [PERIOD] 1903 that provided the liberals [PERSON] with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature [NATURE] . chamberlain [PERSON] 's proposals [ABSTRACT ENTITY] dominated politics [ACTION] through the rest [STATE] of 1903 up until the general election [POWER] of 1906 . campbell-bannerman , like other liberals [PERSON] , held an unshakeable belief [TRUST] in free trade [PERSON] . in a speech [SPEECH] at bolton [PERSON] on 15 october [PERIOD] 1903 , he explained in greater detail [EVENT] the reasoning [ABSTRACT ENTITY] behind liberal [PERSON] support [SET] for free trade [PERSON] . we are satisfied that it is right [PERSON] because it gives the freest play [EVENT] to individual energy [ENERGY] and initiative and character [EVENT] and the largest liberty [PERSON] both to producer and consumer . we say that trade [PERSON] is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course [PERSON] , and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles.... we believe in free trade [PERSON] because we believe in the capacity [ARTIFACT] of our countrymen [PERSON] . that at least is why i oppose protection root [ESTATE] and branch , veiled and unveiled , one-sided or reciprocal . i oppose it in any form [FORM] . besides we have experience [EFFECT] of fifty years [PERIOD] , during which our prosperity [CONDITION] has become the envy [PERSON] of the world [PLACE] . in 1903 , the liberal party [FORCE] 's chief whip herbert gladstone [PERSON] [PERSON] negotiated a pact [AGREEMENT] with ramsay macdonald [PERSON] of the labour representation committee [HUMAN GROUP] to withdraw liberal [PERSON] candidates [AMOUNT] to help lrc [UNKNOWN] candidates [AMOUNT] in certain seats [ABSTRACT ENTITY] , in return [FORM] for lrc [UNKNOWN] withdrawal in other seats [ABSTRACT ENTITY] to help liberal [PERSON] candidates [AMOUNT] . this attempt to undermine and outflank the conservatives [UNKNOWN] , which would prove to be successful , formed what became known as the " gladstone-macdonald pact [AGREEMENT] " . campbell-bannerman got on well with labour leaders [PERSON] , and he said in 1903 " we are keenly in sympathy [EVENT] with the representatives [EVENT] of labour [PERSON] . we have too few of them in the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] " . despite this comment [EVENT] , and his sympathies [EVENT] with many elements [ELEMENT] of the labour movement [HUMAN GROUP] , he was not a socialist [PERSON] . one biographer [PERSON] has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight [STATE] of the poor [UNKNOWN] and so had readily adopted the rhetoric [UNKNOWN] of progressivism [BODY] , but he was not a progressive " . prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] ( 1905-1908 ) further information [INFORMATION] : liberal government [GOVERNMENT] , 1905-1915 appointment [PROCESS] and cabinet sketch [SPEECH ACT] of campbell-bannerman the liberals [PERSON] found themselves suddenly returned to power [POWER] in december [PERIOD] 1905 when arthur balfour [PERSON] resigned as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , prompting edward vii [PERSON] to invite campbell-bannerman to form [FORM] a minority government [GOVERNMENT] as the first liberal [PERSON] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] of the 20th century [PERIOD] . at 69 , he was the oldest person [PERSON] to become prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] for the first time [PERIOD] in the 20th century [PERIOD] , though balfour [PERSON] had hoped that campbell-bannerman would not be able to form [FORM] a strong government [GOVERNMENT] , ushering in a general election [POWER] that he could win . campbell-bannerman also faced problems [EVENT] within his own party [FORCE] , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith [PERSON] , edward grey [PERSON] and richard haldane [PERSON] , who planned to force him into the house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] , weakening him as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] and effectively allowing asquith [PERSON] to govern as leader [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman saw off both of these issues [EVENT] by offering the positions [POSITION] of chancellor [PERSON] of the exchequer [AMOUNT] , foreign secretary [PERSON] and secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] to asquith [PERSON] , grey [PERSON] and haldane [PERSON] respectively , which all three accepted , whilst immediately dissolving parliament [HUMAN GROUP] and calling a general election [POWER] . in his first public [UNKNOWN] speech [SPEECH] as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] on 22 december [PERIOD] 1905 , campbell-bannerman launched the liberal [PERSON] election campaign [SERIES] , focusing on the traditional liberal [PERSON] platform [LIGHT] of " peace [EVENT] , retrenchment [EVENT] and reform [AMOUNT] " : expenditure calls [UNKNOWN] for taxes [FORM] , and taxes [FORM] are the plaything [EVENT] of the tariff [PERSON] reformer [PERSON] . militarism [BODY] , extravagance [AMOUNT] , protection [ACT] are weeds [ABSTRACT ENTITY] which grow in the same field [LAND] , and if you want to clear the field [LAND] for honest [PERSON] cultivation [STUDY] you must root them all out . for my own part , i do not believe that we should have been confronted by the spectre [UNKNOWN] of protection [ACT] if it had not been for the south african war [EVENT] . depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports [ESTATE] and for the cheap food [FOOD] and material upon [UNKNOWN] which the welfare [STATE] of the people [HUMAN GROUP] and the prosperity [CONDITION] of our commerce depend [UNKNOWN] we are fighting against those powers [POWER] , privileges [PRIVILEGE] , injustices [POWER] , and monopolies [FUNCTION] which are unalterably opposed to the triumph [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of democratic principles [PERSON] . helped by the lib-lab pact [AGREEMENT] that he had negotiated , the splits [VALUE] in the conservatives [UNKNOWN] over free trade [PERSON] and the positive election campaign [SERIES] that he fought , the liberals [PERSON] won by a landslide [CONCLUSION] , gaining 216 seats [ABSTRACT ENTITY] . the conservatives [UNKNOWN] saw their number [NUMBER] of seats [ABSTRACT ENTITY] more than halve [UNKNOWN] , and arthur balfour [PERSON] , now as leader [PERSON] of the opposition [EVENT] , lost his manchester east seat [PERSON] to the liberals [PERSON] . campbell-bannerman was the last liberal [PERSON] to lead his party [FORCE] to an absolute majority [PROPERTY] in the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] . now with a majority [PROPERTY] of 125 , campbell-bannerman was returned to downing street [PLACE] as a considerably-strengthened prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] . the defeat [ACT] of the relugas conspirators [PERSON] in the wake [PLACE] of this stunning victory [PERSON] was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies [LIGHT] in british [UNKNOWN] political history [INSTANCE] " . whereas [UNKNOWN] in the past [PERIOD] it had never been used formally , campbell-bannerman was the first first lord [PERSON] of the treasury [TERM] to be given official use [USE] of the title [ESTATE] " prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] " , a standard [ARTIFACT] that continues to the present day [PERIOD] . in 1907 , by virtue [PERSON] of being the member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] with the longest continuous service [INSTITUTION] , campbell-bannerman became the father [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] , the only serving british [UNKNOWN] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] to do so . social reforms [PERSON] in his election address [UNKNOWN] , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour [PERSON] of reforming the poor [UNKNOWN] law [PERSON] , reducing unemployment [PERSON] and improving working conditions [CONDITION] in sweated factories [EVENT] . the liberal imperialist [PERSON] richard haldane [PERSON] [PERSON] claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government [GOVERNMENT] " was if anything [ANYTHING] , too conservative...with that dear old tory [PERSON] , c.b. , at the head [HEAD] of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority [PROPERTY] will [UNKNOWN] allow him " . however the historian [PLACE] a. j. a [PERSON] . morris disagreed with this judgment [ACT] , stating that campbell-bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a gladstonian liberal [PERSON] who favoured retrenchment [EVENT] in public [UNKNOWN] expenditure [AMOUNT] that was perhaps at odds [UNKNOWN] with any ambitious scheme [FIGURE] of social reform [AMOUNT] . another [UNKNOWN] later biographer [PERSON] , john wilson [PERSON] , called campbell-bannerman a moderate social reformer [PERSON] , stating that campbell-bannerman favoured a better deal [QUANTITY] for the poor [UNKNOWN] and the workers [UNKNOWN] but like gladstone [PERSON] he was opposed to too much state interference [PLACE] . he was said to have commented on the futility [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of ' our wealth [INSTANCE] , and learning [ACT] and the fine flower [PERSON] of our civilisation [UNKNOWN] and our constitution [PERSON] and our political theories [COGNITIVE STATE] ' calling them ' but dust [DUST] and ashes ' if the people [HUMAN GROUP] who labour [PERSON] , the workers [UNKNOWN] on whom ' the whole [UNKNOWN] social fabric [MATERIAL] is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness [PROPERTY] and misery [CONDITION] ' in what he called ' the recesses [RANK] of our great cities [SET] ' . cb said that ' sunshine [PERSON] must be allowed to stream in , the water [WATER] and the food [FOOD] must be kept pure [UNKNOWN] and unadulterated , the streets [POSITION] light and clean ' . the government [GOVERNMENT] of campbell-bannerman allowed local authorities [UNKNOWN] to provide free school meals [PERSON] ( though this was not compulsory [UNKNOWN] ) and also strengthened the power [POWER] of the trade unions [PERSON] with their trade disputes act [ACT] 1906 . the workmen [UNKNOWN] 's compensation act [ACT] 1906 gave some workers [UNKNOWN] the right [PERSON] against their employer [PERSON] to a certain amount [AMOUNT] of compensation [ABSTRACT ENTITY] if they suffered an accident [PERSON] at work [ACTIVITY] . the probation [EVENT] of offenders act [ACT] 1907 was passed , which established supervision [ACT] within the community [PROPERTY] for young offenders [PERSON] as an alternative [WORD] to prison [SOFTWARE] . under campbell-bannerman 's successor [PERSON] , h. h. asquith [PERSON] , many far-reaching reforms [PERSON] were implemented , but campbell-bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation [UNKNOWN] from representatives [EVENT] of 25 women [PERSON] 's suffragist groups [GROUP] ( representing 1,000 women [PERSON] ) though he said that his cabinet [PERSON] would object to this change [UNKNOWN] . house [PLACE] of lords reforms [PERSON] in the matter [STATE] of house [PLACE] of lords reforms [PERSON] , which was to become the dominant issue [EVENT] of the 1910 elections [POWER] , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june [PERIOD] 1907 that the lords [PERSON] enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges [PRIVILEGE] , but be deprived of all real legislative power [POWER] ; and that the commons [PLACE] after tolerating for a few months [PERIOD] the futile criticisms [ACT] of the lords [PERSON] would be empowered by mere lapse [PERSON] of a brief fraction [ACT] of a year [PERIOD] to ignore the very existence [ENTITY] of a second chamber [PERSON] , and to proceed to pass [ACT] their statute [PERSON] on their own authority [PERSON] , like the ordinances [BODY] of the long parliament [HUMAN GROUP] during the english civil war [EVENT] . in essence [STATE] , he maintained that the predominance [CONDITION] of the commons [PLACE] must prevail , without any appeal [PERSON] to the constituencies [PERSON] ( i.e. a further general election [POWER] ) . william sharp mckechnie characterised this as an " untried one-chambered legislature [BUILDING] " and stated that " it could only be carried out by some revolutionary procedure [PROCEDURE] . " punch cartoon [PLAN] dated 19 february [PERIOD] 1908 , making fun [PERSON] of the relationship [RELATIONSHIP] between house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] ( henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman ) and house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] ( lord lansdowne [PERSON] ) . foreign affairs [PERSON] see also : 1907 imperial conference [PERSON] campbell-bannerman 's first speech [SPEECH] as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] endorsed the intent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of the hague convention [ARTIFACT] of 1907 to limit armaments [FORCE] . in march [PERIOD] 1907 , he published " the hague conference [PERSON] and the limitation [VALUE] of armaments [FORCE] " , an article [ARTICLE] in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority [PERSON] of the peace movement [HUMAN GROUP] as reasons [ABSTRACT ENTITY] to freeze the status [STATUS] quo in the naval arms race [RACE] between germany [PLACE] and britain [PLACE] . his effort [ACTION] was generally considered a failure [ABSTRACT ENTITY] ; in the words [WORD] of historian [PLACE] barbara tuchman [PERSON] , " the argument [ABSTRACT ENTITY] was narrow steering between the rocks [EVENT] of conscience [PERSON] and the shoals [PORTION] of political reality [PERSON] and it pleased nobody [PERSON] . " the 1907 conference [PERSON] ultimately restricted only a few new classes [UNKNOWN] of armaments [FORCE] , such as submarine mines [PERSON] and projectiles [PROJECTILE] fired or dropped from hot air balloons [PERMISSION] , but placed no limitations [VALUE] on naval expenditures [AMOUNT] . in 1906 , campbell-bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident [EVENT] with the russian government [GOVERNMENT] when he responded to tsar nicholas ii [PERSON] 's dissolution [EVENT] of the duma [PERSON] with a speech [SPEECH] in which he declared , " the duma [PERSON] is dead ; long live the duma [PERSON] ! " nonetheless , his premiership [POSITION] saw the entente [UNKNOWN] with russia [PLACE] in 1907 , brought about principally by the foreign secretary [PERSON] , edward grey [PERSON] . in january [PERIOD] 1906 grey [PERSON] sanctioned staff talks [EVENT] between britain [PLACE] and france [PLACE] 's army [HUMAN GROUP] and navy [PERSON] but without any binding commitment [COMMITMENT] . these included the plan [PLAN] to send one hundred thousand british [UNKNOWN] soldiers [GROUP] to france [PLACE] within two weeks [PERIOD] of a franco-german war [EVENT] . campbell-bannerman was not informed of these at first but when grey [PERSON] told him about them he gave them his blessing [PERSON] . this was the origin [ARTIFACT] of the british expeditionary [PERSON] force that would be sent to france [PLACE] in 1914 at the start [UNKNOWN] of the great war [EVENT] with germany [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman did not inform the rest [STATE] of the cabinet [PERSON] of these staff talks [EVENT] because there was no binding commitment [COMMITMENT] and because he wanted to preserve the unity [PROCESS] of the government [GOVERNMENT] . the radical members [PERSON] of the cabinet [PERSON] such as lord loreburn [PERSON] , lord morley [PERSON] and lord bryce [PERSON] would have opposed such co-operation with the french [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman visited france [PLACE] in april [PERIOD] 1907 and met the radical prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , georges clemenceau [PERSON] . clemenceau [PERSON] believed that the british [UNKNOWN] would help france [PLACE] in a war [EVENT] with germany [PLACE] but campbell-bannerman told him britain [PLACE] was in no way [UNKNOWN] committed . he may [PERIOD] have been unaware that the staff talks [EVENT] were still ongoing . not long after this violet cecil [PERSON] met clemenceau [PERSON] and she wrote down what he had said to her about the meeting [ACTIVITY] : clemenceau [PERSON] said... 'i am totally opposed to you - we both recognise a great danger [AMOUNT] and you are...reducing your army [HUMAN GROUP] and weakening your navy [PERSON] . ' ' ah ' said bannerman [PERSON] ' but that is for economy [STUDY] ! '... then said that he thought [UNKNOWN] the english [EVENT] ought to have some kind [INSTANCE] of military service [INSTITUTION] , at which bannerman [PERSON] nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau [PERSON] 'in the event [EVENT] of your supporting us against germany [PLACE] are you ready to abide by the plans [PLAN] agreed upon between our war offices [FUNCTION] and to land [LAND] 110,000 men [PERSON] on the coast [UNKNOWN] while italy marches [PLACE] with us in the ranks [RANK] ? ' then came the crowning touch [EVENT] of the interview [PERSON] . ' the sentiments [EVENT] of the english [EVENT] people [HUMAN GROUP] would be totally averse to any troops [HUMAN GROUP] being landed by england [PLACE] on the continent [VALUE] under any circumstances [EVENT] . ' clemenceau [PERSON] looks upon this as undoing the whole [UNKNOWN] result [RESULT] of the entente [UNKNOWN] cordiale [UNKNOWN] and says that if that represents the final mind [FIGURE] of the british [UNKNOWN] government [GOVERNMENT] , he has done with us . campbell-bannerman 's biographer john wilson [PERSON] has described the meeting [ACTIVITY] as " a clash [PERSON] between two fundamentally different philosophies [STATE] " . the liberal [PERSON] journalist [PERSON] and friend [PERSON] of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst [PERSON] , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost [GHOST] of a notion [SUBSTANCE] that the french entente [UNKNOWN] was being converted into a...return [UNKNOWN] to the old balance [GARMENT] of power [POWER] which had involved great britain [PLACE] in so many wars [EVENT] on the continent [VALUE] . that . . . grey [PERSON] and haldane [PERSON] did not inform the cabinet [PERSON] is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle [PERSON] of peace [EVENT] like sir [PERSON] henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger [AMOUNT] and yet concealed it from his colleagues [PERSON] is incredible , and i am happy [PERSON] to conclude...with an assurance [PERSON] that in the days [PERIOD] of his triumph [ABSTRACT ENTITY] the liberal leader [PERSON] , having fought a good fight [OCCURRENCE] , kept the faith [PERSON] to the end [UNKNOWN] and was in no way [UNKNOWN] responsible for the european tragedy [SITUATION] that came to pass [ACT] six years [PERIOD] after his death [EVENT] " . campbell-bannerman 's government [GOVERNMENT] granted the boer states [PLACE] , the transvaal [UNKNOWN] and the orange river colony [PERSON] , self-government within the british empire [STATE] through an order [GARMENT] in council [HUMAN GROUP] so as to bypass the house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] . this led to the union [PLACE] of south africa [PLACE] in 1910 . the first south african prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] [HUMAN ROLE] , general louis botha [PERSON] , believed that " campbell-bannerman 's act [ACT] had redressed the balance [GARMENT] of the anglo-boer war [EVENT] , or had , at any rate [RATE] , given full power [POWER] to the south africans [PLACE] themselves to redress it " . the former boer general [PERSON] , jan smuts [PERSON] , wrote to david lloyd george [PERSON] in 1919 : " my experience [EFFECT] in south africa [PLACE] has made me a firm believer [PERSON] in political magnanimity [QUALITY] , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record [INSTANCE] still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page [INSTANCE] in recent british [UNKNOWN] statesmanship [SKILL] " . however the unionist politician lord milner [PERSON] opposed it , saying in august [PERIOD] 1907 : " people [HUMAN GROUP] here - not only liberals [PERSON] - seem delighted , and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows [PERSON] for having given south africa [PLACE] back to the boers [PERSON] . i think it all sheer lunacy [ABSTRACT ENTITY] " . campbell-bannerman 's government [GOVERNMENT] * henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman - prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , first lord [PERSON] of the treasury [TERM] and leader [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] * robert reid [PERSON] , 1st earl loreburn [PERSON] - lord chancellor [PERSON] * robert crewe-milnes , earl [PERSON] of crewe [PERSON] - lord president [PERSON] of the council [HUMAN GROUP] * lord ripon [PERSON] - lord privy seal [PERSON] and leader [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] * h. h. asquith [PERSON] - chancellor [PERSON] of the exchequer [AMOUNT] * herbert gladstone [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for the home department [PERSON] * edward grey [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for foreign affairs [PERSON] * victor bruce [PERSON] , 9th earl [PERSON] of elgin [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for the colonies [UNKNOWN] * richard haldane [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] * john morley [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for india [PLACE] * edward marjoribanks [PERSON] , 2nd baron tweedmouth [UNKNOWN] - first lord [PERSON] of the admiralty [FORCE] * david lloyd george [PERSON] - president [PERSON] of the board [PERSON] of trade [PERSON] * henry [PERSON] fowler [PERSON] - chancellor [PERSON] of the duchy [UNKNOWN] of lancaster [PLACE] * john sinclair [PERSON] - secretary [PERSON] for scotland [PLACE] * james bryce [PERSON] - chief secretary [PERSON] for ireland [PLACE] * john burns [PERSON] - president [PERSON] of the local government [GOVERNMENT] board [PERSON] * charles wynn-carington , earl carrington [PERSON] - president [PERSON] of the board [PERSON] of agriculture [STUDY] * augustine birrell [PERSON] - president [PERSON] of the board [PERSON] of education [PROCESS] * sydney buxton [PERSON] - postmaster-general changes * january [PERIOD] 1907 - augustine birrell [PERSON] succeeds bryce [PERSON] as irish secretary [PERSON] . reginald mckenna [PERSON] succeeds birrell [PERSON] at the board [PERSON] of education [PROCESS] . * march [PERIOD] 1907 - lewis harcourt [PERSON] , the first commissioner [PERSON] of works [UNKNOWN] , enters the cabinet [PERSON] . retirement [ACT] and death [EVENT] not long after he became father [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] in 1907 , campbell-bannerman 's health [PROPERTY] took a turn [AMOUNT] for the worse [ABSTRACT ENTITY] . following a series [SERIES] of heart attacks [EVENT] , the most serious in november [PERIOD] 1907 , he began to fear [EMOTION] that he would not be able to survive to the end [UNKNOWN] of his term [TERM] . he eventually resigned as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] on 3 april [PERIOD] 1908 , and was succeeded by his chancellor [PERSON] of the exchequer [AMOUNT] , h. h. asquith [PERSON] . campbell-bannerman remained both a member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] and leader [PERSON] of the liberal party [FORCE] , and continued to live at 10 downing street [PLACE] in the immediate aftermath [PLACE] of his resignation [EVENT] , intending to make other arrangements [ARRANGEMENT] in the near future [VALUE] . however , his health [PROPERTY] began to decline at an even quicker pace [PACE] than before , and he died on 22 april [PERIOD] 1908 , nineteen days [PERIOD] after his resignation [EVENT] . his last words [WORD] were " this is not the end [UNKNOWN] of me " . he remains to date [RESULT] the only former prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] to die within 10 downing street [PLACE] . campbell-bannerman was buried in the churchyard [PIECE] of meigle parish church [PERSON] , perthshire [PLACE] , near belmont castle [PERSON] , his home [PLACE] since 1887 . a relatively modest stone plaque [PERSON] set in the exterior wall [PERSON] of the church [PERSON] serves as a memorial [ABSTRACT ENTITY] . st mary [PERSON] 's church [PERSON] , hunton [PERSON] ( english heritage legacy id [PERSON] : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet [FOOD] on the nave wall [PERSON] dedicated to henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman . legacy statue [PERSON] of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views [PERSON] of contemporaries [PERSON] on the day [PERIOD] of campbell-bannerman 's death [EVENT] the flag [FLAG] of the national liberal [PERSON] club [INSTITUTION] was lowered to half-mast , the blinds [PERSON] were drawn and his portrait [PERSON] was draped in black as a sign [SIGN] of mourning . john redmond [PERSON] , the leader [PERSON] of the irish nationalist party [FORCE] , paid tribute [QUANTITY] to campbell-bannerman by saying that " we all feel that ireland [PLACE] has lost a brave and considerate friend [PERSON] " . david lloyd george [PERSON] said on hearing of campbell-bannerman 's death [EVENT] : i think it will [UNKNOWN] be felt by the community [PROPERTY] as a whole [UNKNOWN] as if they had lost a relative [EVENT] . certainly those who have been associated with him closely for years [PERIOD] will [UNKNOWN] feel a deep sense [PROCESS] of personal bereavement [STATE] . i have never met a great public [UNKNOWN] figure [FIGURE] since i have been in politics [ACTION] who so completely won the attachment [PERSON] and affection [EMOTION] of the men [PERSON] who came into contact [ACT] with him . he was not merely admired and respected ; he was absolutely loved by us all . i really cannot trust myself to say more . the masses [MATERIAL] of the people [HUMAN GROUP] of this country [PLACE] , especially the more unfortunate of them , have lost the best friend [PERSON] they ever had in the high places [PLACE] of the land [LAND] . his sympathy [EVENT] in all suffering [UNKNOWN] was real , deep , and unaffected . he was truly a great man—a great head [HEAD] and a great heart [FORCE] . he was absolutely the bravest man [PERSON] i ever met in politics [ACTION] . he was entirely free from fear [EMOTION] . he was a man [PERSON] of supreme courage [PERSON] . ireland [PLACE] has certainly lost one of her truest friends [PERSON] , and what is true of ireland [PLACE] is true of every section [ESTATE] of the community [PROPERTY] of this empire [STATE] which has a fight [OCCURRENCE] to maintain against powerful foes [UNKNOWN] . in an uncharacteristically emotional speech [SPEECH] on 27 april [PERIOD] , the day [PERIOD] of campbell-bannerman 's funeral [ACTION] , his successor h. h. asquith [PERSON] [PERSON] told the house [PLACE] of commons [PLACE] : what was the secret [SERIES] of the hold [AGREEMENT] which in these later days [PERIOD] he unquestionably had on the admiration [EVENT] and affection [EMOTION] of men [PERSON] of all parties [FORCE] and all creeds [EVENT] ? ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering [UNKNOWN] and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender [PERSON] in his sympathies [EVENT] , always disposed to despise victories [CONDITION] won in any sphere [UNKNOWN] by mere brute force [FORCE] , an almost passionate lover of peace [EVENT] . and yet we have not seen in our time [PERIOD] a man [PERSON] of greater courage— courage [PERSON] not of the defiant [PERSON] or aggressive type [UNKNOWN] , but calm , patient , persistent , indomitable. .. in politics [ACTION] i think he may [PERIOD] be fairly described as an idealist [PERSON] in aim [PERSON] , and an optimist [TENDENCY] by temperament [EVENT] . great causes [CAUSE] appealed to him . he was not ashamed , even on the verge [PERSON] of old age [PROPERTY] , to see visions [UNKNOWN] and to dream dreams [PERSON] . he had no misgivings [POSITION] as to the future [VALUE] of democracy [QUALITY] . he had a single-minded and unquenchable faith [PERSON] in the unceasing progress [EVENT] and the growing unity [PROCESS] of mankind... he never put himself forward [ABSTRACT ENTITY] , yet no one had greater tenacity [PROCESS] of purpose [PURPOSE] . he was the least cynical [UNKNOWN] of mankind [PERSON] , but no one had a keener eye [PERSON] for the humours [STATE] and ironies [ACTIVITY] of the political situation [SITUATION] . he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter [SET] , a strong party man [PERSON] , but he harboured no resentments [PERSON] , and was generous to a fault [QUANTITY] in appreciation [PERSON] of the work [ACTIVITY] of others [UNKNOWN] , whether friends [PERSON] or foes [UNKNOWN] . he met both good and evil fortune [PERSON] with the same unclouded brow [PERSON] , the same unruffled temper [STATE] , the same unshakable confidence [EMOTION] in the justice [PROPERTY] and righteousness [PERSON] of his cause. ..he has gone to his rest [STATE] , and to-day in this house [PLACE] , of which he was the senior [PERSON] and the most honoured member [PERSON] , we may [PERIOD] call a truce [AGREEMENT] in the strife [AMOUNT] of parties [FORCE] , while we remember together our common loss [PERSON] , and pay our united homage [ASSET] to a gracious and cherished memory [ABSTRACT ENTITY] — how happy [PERSON] is he born and taught that serveth [UNKNOWN] not another [UNKNOWN] 's will [UNKNOWN] ; whose armour [PERSON] is his honest [PERSON] thought [UNKNOWN] , and simple truth [EVENT] his utmost skill [SKILL] ; this man [PERSON] is freed from servile bands [ACT] of hope [EVENT] to rise or fear [EMOTION] to fall [PERSON] ; lord of himself , though not of lands [LAND] , and , having nothing [PERSON] , yet hath all . robert smillie [PERSON] , the trade unionist [PERSON] and labour mp [PERSON] , said that , after gladstone [PERSON] , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man [PERSON] he had ever met . views [PERSON] of historians [PLACE] blue plaque [PERSON] at 6 grosvenor place [PLACE] , london historians [PLACE] agree that in his 28 months [PERIOD] as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , campbell-bannerman was relatively undistinguished with few significant reforms [PERSON] enacted . major bills [DOCUMENT] such as plural voting [PERSON] , land reform [AMOUNT] , and licensing reform [AMOUNT] were shredded in the lords [PERSON] . education [PROCESS] bills [DOCUMENT] of 1906 and 1907 were rejected by both party supporters [PERSON] and unionist peers [PERSON] . the bills [DOCUMENT] that were passed were either technical or the result [RESULT] of cross-party consensus [FORCE] . campbell-bannerman had no apparent plan [PLAN] to circumvent the lords [PERSON] ' veto [PERSON] and did little to stimulate the social reform program [PROGRAM] . campbell-bannerman was passive and uninvolved in his dealings [UNKNOWN] with the cabinet [PERSON] , leading to diffuse debates [STATE] and ill-focused methods [RANK] of handling [AMOUNT] business [STATE] . he failed to supervise grey [PERSON] 's foreign policy [RULE] , he failed to consult the full cabinet [PERSON] before initiating momentous discussions [EVENT] on defense interests [UNKNOWN] with the french [PLACE] in 1906 . as a result [RESULT] , his competence [EVENT] was severely questioned . however , historians [PLACE] have identified a few positive aspects [INSTANCE] of his tenure [STATUS] , including laying the foundation [GROUP] for a more effective government [GOVERNMENT] under asquith [PERSON] . he was part of a period [PERIOD] of scottish dominance [EVENT] in the prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] role [ROLE] and he represented scotland [PLACE] 's full integration [EVENT] into the political realm [NUMBER] . additionally , campbell-bannerman was the first prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] with direct business experience [EFFECT] and not from a landed , anglican background [INFORMATION] . historian george dangerfield [PERSON] in 1935 concluded that campbell-bannerman 's death [EVENT] " was like the passing [PERSON] of true liberalism [ACTION] . henry [PERSON] had believed in peace [EVENT] , retrenchment [EVENT] , and reform [AMOUNT] , those amiable deities [DEITY] who presided so complacently over large portions [PORTION] of the victorian era... and now almost the last true worshipper [PERSON] at those large , equivocal altars [PLACE] lay dead " . campbell-bannerman held firmly to the liberal [PERSON] principles [PERSON] of richard cobden [PERSON] and william ewart gladstone [PERSON] . it was not until campbell-bannerman 's departure [EVENT] that the doctrines [PLACE] of new liberalism [ACTION] came to be implemented . r. b . mccallum [PERSON] stated that " campbell-bannerman was of pure [UNKNOWN] gladstonian vintage [SITUATION] and a hero [PERSON] to the radicals [RESOURCE] " . friedrich hayek [PERSON] said : " perhaps the government [GOVERNMENT] of sir [PERSON] henry [PERSON] campbell-bannerman... should be regarded as the last liberal government [GOVERNMENT] of the old type [UNKNOWN] , while under his successor [PERSON] , h. h. asquith [PERSON] , new experiments [PERIOD] in social policy [RULE] were undertaken which were only doubtfully compatible with the older liberal [PERSON] principles [PERSON] " . other historical accounts [COLLECTION] , however , have portrayed campbell-bannerman as a genuine progressive figure [FIGURE] . according to one study [STUDY] , campbell-bannerman 's views [PERSON] " were broadly those of the party [FORCE] 's centre-left : a belief [TRUST] in individual freedom [PERSON] , a desire [EVENT] to help the disadvantaged , an aversion [POSITION] to imperialism and support [SET] for irish self-government . " during his time [PERIOD] as prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , campbell-bannerman supported such measures [MEASURE] as safeguards [ABSTRACT ENTITY] for trade unions [PERSON] , old-age pensions [INSTANCE] , and urban planning [ACT] to improve housing [ACQUISITION] . as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention [EVENT] of the liberal party [FORCE] to do something about the " twelve million people [HUMAN GROUP] in england [PLACE] were living on the verge [PERSON] of starvation [DEFICIENCY] , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party [FORCE] leader [PERSON] george lansbury [PERSON] wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man [PERSON] who " believed in peace [EVENT] and was not afraid of the word socialism [GROUP] , and did believe unemployment [PERSON] was a national problem [EVENT] and the unemployed the care [CONDITION] of the state [STATE] . " his bronze bust [PERSON] , sculpted by paul raphael montford [PERSON] , is in westminster abbey [PERSON] . there is a blue plaque [PERSON] outside campbell-bannerman 's house [PLACE] at 6 grosvenor place [PLACE] in london [PLACE] , unveiled in 2008 . campbell-bannerman was the subject [EVENT] of several parody novels [EVENT] based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice [PERSON] in wonderland [PLACE] , such as caroline lewis [PERSON] 's ( pseudonym [NAME] for edward harold begbie [PERSON] , j. stafford [PERSON] ransome , and michael henry [PERSON] temple [PERSON] ) clara [PERSON] in blunderland [UNKNOWN] ( 1902 ) and lost in blunderland [UNKNOWN] ( 1903 ) . |
| Id | Form | Freq | Tag | Context | Error |
| 1 | campbell bannerman | 82 | PERSON | ||
| 2 | house | 26 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 3 | government | 19 | GOVERNMENT | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 4 | commons | 15 | PLACE | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 5 | minister | 15 | HUMAN ROLE | prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " campbell-bannerman " redirects here . | |
| 6 | leader | 11 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 7 | prime minister | 11 | HUMAN ROLE | prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " campbell-bannerman " redirects here . | |
| 8 | secretary | 11 | PERSON | february 1899 - 22 april 1908 preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by h. h. asquith secretary of state for war in office 18 | |
| 9 | state | 11 | STATE | february 1899 - 22 april 1908 preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by h. h. asquith secretary of state for war in office 18 | |
| 10 | election | 10 | POWER | following a general election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 11 | april | 9 | PERIOD | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 12 | glasgow | 9 | INSTITUTION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 13 | war | 8 | EVENT | february 1899 - 22 april 1908 preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by h. h. asquith secretary of state for war in office 18 | |
| 14 | cabinet | 8 | PERSON | he was appointed to the same position from 1880 to 1882 in gladstone 's second government , and after serving as parliamentary and financial secretary to the admiralty between 1882 and 1884 , campbell-bannerman was promoted to the cabinet as chief secretary for ireland in 1884 , an important role with ongoing home rule debates . | |
| 15 | lords | 8 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 16 | liberal party | 8 | FORCE | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 17 | people | 7 | HUMAN GROUP | for other people with this name , see campbell-bannerman ( surname ) . | |
| 18 | trade | 7 | PERSON | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 19 | britain | 7 | PLACE | a. j. a. morris , in the oxford dictionary of national biography , called him " britain 's first and only radical prime minister " . | |
| 20 | speech | 7 | SPEECH | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 21 | years | 7 | PERIOD | for several years an aunt occupied the big house at hunton which campbell-bannerman had inherited in 1871 . | |
| 22 | liberals | 7 | PERSON | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 23 | france | 6 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 24 | parliament | 6 | HUMAN GROUP | he served as the conservative member of parliament for glasgow and aberdeen universities from 1880 to 1906 . | |
| 25 | man | 6 | PERSON | he was absolutely the bravest man i ever met in politics . | |
| 26 | power | 6 | POWER | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 27 | earl | 6 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 28 | ireland | 6 | PLACE | february 1886 - 20 july 1886 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by gathorne gathorne-hardy , 1st earl of cranbrook succeeded by william henry smith chief secretary for ireland | |
| 29 | gladstone | 6 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 30 | rosebery | 6 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 31 | chancellor | 5 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman resigned as prime minister in april 1908 due to ill-health and was replaced by his chancellor , h. h. asquith . | |
| 32 | day | 5 | PERIOD | during his time in the war office , he introduced an experimental eight-hour day for the workers at the woolwich arsenal munitions factory . | |
| 33 | death | 5 | EVENT | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 34 | days | 5 | PERIOD | he was the first first lord of the treasury to be officially called the " prime minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . | |
| 35 | peace | 5 | EVENT | in his first public speech as prime minister on 22 december 1905 , campbell-bannerman launched the liberal election campaign , focusing on the traditional liberal platform of " peace , retrenchment and reform " : | |
| 36 | h. h. asquith | 5 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 37 | member | 5 | PERSON | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 38 | party | 5 | FORCE | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 39 | street | 5 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 40 | henry campbell bannerman | 5 | PERSON | ||
| 41 | time | 5 | PERIOD | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 42 | workers | 4 | UNKNOWN | during his time in the war office , he introduced an experimental eight-hour day for the workers at the woolwich arsenal munitions factory . | |
| 43 | father | 4 | PERSON | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 44 | november | 4 | PERIOD | however , at the general election in november of that year , campbell-bannerman defeated ramsay and was elected to the house of commons as the liberal member of parliament for stirling burghs , a constituency that he would go on to represent for almost forty years . | |
| 45 | arthur balfour | 4 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 46 | clemenceau | 4 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman visited france in april 1907 and met the radical prime minister , georges clemenceau . | |
| 47 | opposition | 4 | EVENT | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 48 | seats | 4 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 49 | first lord | 4 | PERSON | he was the first first lord of the treasury to be officially called the " prime minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . | |
| 50 | british | 4 | UNKNOWN | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 51 | politics | 4 | ACTION | chamberlain 's proposals dominated politics through the rest of 1903 up until the general election of 1906 . | |
| 52 | exchequer | 4 | AMOUNT | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 53 | grey | 4 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 54 | president | 4 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 55 | board | 4 | PERSON | david lloyd george - president of the board of trade * | |
| 56 | scotland | 4 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 57 | germany | 4 | PLACE | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 58 | children | 3 | PERSON | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 59 | end | 3 | UNKNOWN | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 60 | staff talks | 3 | EVENT | grey sanctioned staff talks between britain and france 's army and navy but without any binding commitment . | |
| 61 | trade unions | 3 | PERSON | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 62 | months | 3 | PERIOD | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 63 | james campbell | 3 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september 1836 at kelvinside house in glasgow as henry campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to james campbell of stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . | |
| 64 | united kingdom | 3 | PLACE | prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " campbell-bannerman " redirects here . | |
| 65 | conservatives | 3 | UNKNOWN | this attempt to undermine and outflank the conservatives , which would prove to be successful , formed what became known as the " gladstone-macdonald pact " . | |
| 66 | convention | 3 | ARTIFACT | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 67 | candidates | 3 | AMOUNT | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 68 | age | 3 | PROPERTY | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 69 | words | 3 | WORD | campbell-bannerman and charlotte were an exceptionally close couple throughout their marriage ; in the words of one historian , they " shared every thought and possible moment " . | |
| 70 | couple | 3 | GROUP | the couple never had any children . | |
| 71 | person | 3 | PERSON | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 72 | retrenchment | 3 | EVENT | in his first public speech as prime minister on 22 december 1905 , campbell-bannerman launched the liberal election campaign , focusing on the traditional liberal platform of " peace , retrenchment and reform " : | |
| 73 | experience | 3 | EFFECT | his only military experience was thirty years earlier with the 53rd lanarkshire rifles volunteers . | |
| 74 | work | 3 | ACTIVITY | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 75 | reform | 3 | AMOUNT | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 76 | french | 3 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 77 | office february | 3 | PERIOD | ||
| 78 | wife | 3 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september 1836 at kelvinside house in glasgow as henry campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to james campbell of stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . | |
| 79 | hunton | 3 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 80 | edward grey | 3 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 81 | friend | 3 | PERSON | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 82 | principles | 3 | PERSON | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 83 | south africa | 3 | PLACE | this led to the union of south africa in 1910 . | |
| 84 | rest | 3 | STATE | chamberlain 's proposals dominated politics through the rest of 1903 up until the general election of 1906 . | |
| 85 | majority | 3 | PROPERTY | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 86 | result | 3 | RESULT | clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the british government , he has done with us . | |
| 87 | men | 3 | PERSON | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 88 | reforms | 3 | PERSON | social reforms | |
| 89 | duma | 3 | PERSON | in 1906 , campbell-bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident with the russian government when he responded to tsar nicholas ii 's dissolution of the duma with a speech in which he declared , " the duma is dead ; long live the duma ! " | |
| 90 | methods | 3 | RANK | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 91 | asquith | 3 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 92 | resignation | 3 | EVENT | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 93 | year | 3 | PERIOD | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 94 | order | 3 | GARMENT | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 95 | armaments | 3 | FORCE | imperial conference campbell-bannerman 's first speech as prime minister endorsed the intent of the hague convention of 1907 to limit armaments . | |
| 96 | david lloyd george | 3 | PERSON | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 97 | charlotte | 3 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 98 | treasury | 3 | TERM | he was the first first lord of the treasury to be officially called the " prime minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . | |
| 99 | community | 3 | PROPERTY | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 100 | william vernon harcourt | 3 | PERSON | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 101 | unemployment | 2 | PERSON | in his election address , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . | |
| 102 | boer war | 2 | EVENT | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 103 | head | 2 | HEAD | the liberal imperialist richard haldane claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old tory , c.b. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . | |
| 104 | food | 2 | FOOD | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 105 | danger | 2 | AMOUNT | 'i am totally opposed to you - we both recognise a great danger and you are...reducing your army and weakening your navy . ' | |
| 106 | loss | 2 | PERSON | the results demonstrated that there was no loss in production . | |
| 107 | use | 2 | USE | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 108 | verge | 2 | PERSON | he was not ashamed , even on the verge of old age , to see visions and to dream dreams . | |
| 109 | poor | 2 | UNKNOWN | one biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . | |
| 110 | service | 2 | INSTITUTION | in 1907 , by virtue of being the member of parliament with the longest continuous service , campbell-bannerman became the father of the house , the only serving british prime minister to do so . | |
| 111 | taxes | 2 | FORM | expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . | |
| 112 | candidate | 2 | AMOUNT | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 113 | conditions | 2 | CONDITION | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 114 | views | 2 | PERSON | legacy statue of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views of contemporaries | |
| 115 | february | 2 | PERIOD | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 116 | appreciation | 2 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman had a deep appreciation for french culture , and particularly enjoyed the novels of anatole france . | |
| 117 | faith | 2 | PERSON | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 118 | proposals | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | however , it was joseph chamberlain 's proposals for tariff reform in may 1903 that provided the liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . | |
| 119 | will | 2 | UNKNOWN | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 120 | protection | 2 | ACT | that at least is why i oppose protection root and branch , veiled and unveiled , one-sided or reciprocal . | |
| 121 | england | 2 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 122 | authority | 2 | PERSON | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 123 | biographer | 2 | PERSON | one biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . | |
| 124 | field | 2 | LAND | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 125 | sir henry campbell bannerman | 2 | PERSON | ||
| 126 | army | 2 | HUMAN GROUP | therefore , campbell-bannerman extended the eight-hour day to the army clothing department . | |
| 127 | future | 2 | VALUE | campbell-bannerman remained both a member of parliament and leader of the liberal party , and continued to live at 10 downing street in the immediate aftermath of his resignation , intending to make other arrangements in the near future . | |
| 128 | financial secretary | 2 | PERSON | financial secretary to the war office in gladstone 's first government in november 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under edward cardwell , the secretary of state for war . | |
| 129 | office | 2 | PLACE | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 130 | perthshire | 2 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 131 | augustine birrell | 2 | PERSON | augustine birrell - president of the board of education * | |
| 132 | brother | 2 | PERSON | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 133 | plan | 2 | PLAN | these included the plan to send one hundred thousand british soldiers to france within two weeks of a franco-german war . | |
| 134 | unity | 2 | PROCESS | campbell-bannerman did not inform the rest of the cabinet of these staff talks because there was no binding commitment and because he wanted to preserve the unity of the government . | |
| 135 | sugar | 2 | SUGAR | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 136 | navy | 2 | PERSON | grey sanctioned staff talks between britain and france 's army and navy but without any binding commitment . | |
| 137 | haldane | 2 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 138 | admiralty | 2 | FORCE | he was appointed to the same position from 1880 to 1882 in gladstone 's second government , and after serving as parliamentary and financial secretary to the admiralty between 1882 and 1884 , campbell-bannerman was promoted to the cabinet as chief secretary for ireland in 1884 , an important role with ongoing home rule debates . | |
| 139 | prosperity | 2 | CONDITION | besides we have experience of fifty years , during which our prosperity has become the envy of the world . | |
| 140 | august | 2 | PERIOD | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 141 | balance | 2 | GARMENT | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 142 | june | 2 | PERIOD | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 143 | fight | 2 | OCCURRENCE | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 144 | december | 2 | PERIOD | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 145 | pact | 2 | AGREEMENT | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 146 | intent | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | the convention 's intent was to lead to the gradual phasing out of export bounties , and britain would then forbid the importation of subsidised sugar . | |
| 147 | term | 2 | TERM | he was the first first lord of the treasury to be officially called the " prime minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . | |
| 148 | belief | 2 | TRUST | campbell-bannerman , like other liberals , held an unshakeable belief in free trade . | |
| 149 | council | 2 | HUMAN GROUP | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 150 | friends | 2 | PERSON | he did not like the " horrid long name " that resulted and invited friends to call him " c.b . " instead . | |
| 151 | church | 2 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 152 | war office | 2 | PLACE | financial secretary to the war office in gladstone 's first government in november 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under edward cardwell , the secretary of state for war . | |
| 153 | triumph | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 154 | firm | 2 | INSTITUTION | after graduating , he joined the family firm of j. & w. campbell & co. , based in glasgow 's ingram | |
| 155 | binding commitment | 2 | COMMITMENT | grey sanctioned staff talks between britain and france 's army and navy but without any binding commitment . | |
| 156 | march | 2 | PERIOD | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 157 | successor | 2 | PERSON | under campbell-bannerman 's successor , h. h. | |
| 158 | business | 2 | STATE | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 159 | grosvenor place | 2 | PLACE | blue plaque at 6 grosvenor place , london historians agree that in his 28 months as prime minister , campbell-bannerman was relatively undistinguished with few significant reforms enacted . | |
| 160 | hunton lodge | 2 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 161 | role | 2 | ROLE | he was appointed to the same position from 1880 to 1882 in gladstone 's second government , and after serving as parliamentary and financial secretary to the admiralty between 1882 and 1884 , campbell-bannerman was promoted to the cabinet as chief secretary for ireland in 1884 , an important role with ongoing home rule debates . | |
| 162 | barbarism | 2 | STATE | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 163 | london | 2 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 164 | liberal leader | 2 | PERSON | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 165 | bannerman | 2 | PERSON | prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " campbell bannerman " redirects here . | |
| 166 | reformer | 2 | PERSON | expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . | |
| 167 | lords reforms | 2 | PERSON | house of lords reforms | |
| 168 | position | 2 | POSITION | financial secretary to the war office in gladstone 's first government in november 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under edward cardwell , the secretary of state for war . | |
| 169 | sympathies | 2 | EVENT | despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the labour movement , he was not a socialist . | |
| 170 | elections | 2 | POWER | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 171 | cambridge | 2 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 172 | sympathy | 2 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman got on well with labour leaders , and he said in 1903 " we are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of labour . | |
| 173 | labour | 2 | PERSON | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 174 | affection | 2 | EMOTION | i have never met a great public figure since i have been in politics who so completely won the attachment and affection of the men who came into contact with him . | |
| 175 | ranks | 2 | RANK | campbell-bannerman rose quickly through the ministerial ranks , being appointed as | |
| 176 | type | 2 | UNKNOWN | and yet we have not seen in our time a man of greater courage— courage not of the defiant or aggressive type , but calm , patient , persistent , indomitable. | |
| 177 | meeting | 2 | ACTIVITY | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 178 | election campaign | 2 | SERIES | in his first public speech as prime minister on 22 december 1905 , campbell-bannerman launched the liberal election campaign , focusing on the traditional liberal platform of " peace , retrenchment and reform " : | |
| 179 | marquess | 2 | PERSON | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 180 | export bounties | 2 | RESULT | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 181 | failure | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 182 | continent | 2 | VALUE | ' the sentiments of the english people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by england on the continent under any circumstances . ' | |
| 183 | authorities | 2 | UNKNOWN | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 184 | chief secretary | 2 | PERSON | february 1886 - 20 july 1886 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by gathorne gathorne-hardy , 1st earl of cranbrook succeeded by william henry smith chief secretary for ireland | |
| 185 | blunderland | 2 | UNKNOWN | ransome , and michael henry temple ) clara in blunderland ( 1902 ) and lost in blunderland ( 1903 ) . | |
| 186 | concentration camps | 2 | FORCE | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 187 | policy | 2 | RULE | he failed to supervise grey 's foreign policy , he failed to consult the full cabinet before initiating momentous discussions on defense interests with the french in 1906 . | |
| 188 | education | 2 | PROCESS | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 189 | september | 2 | PERIOD | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 190 | way | 2 | UNKNOWN | clemenceau believed that the british would help france in a war with germany but campbell-bannerman told him britain was in no way committed . | |
| 191 | residence | 2 | PLACE | he died 19 days later - the only prime minister to die in the official residence , 10 downing street . | |
| 192 | rate | 2 | RATE | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 193 | courage | 2 | PERSON | he was a man of supreme courage . | |
| 194 | return | 2 | FORM | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 195 | parties | 2 | FORCE | what was the secret of the hold which in these later days he unquestionably had on the admiration and affection of men of all parties and all creeds ? | |
| 196 | home | 2 | PLACE | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 197 | country | 2 | PLACE | for their country residence , campbell-bannerman and his wife lived elsewhere , including gennings park , which they did not leave until 1887 . | |
| 198 | form | 2 | FORM | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 199 | land | 2 | LAND | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 200 | privileges | 2 | PRIVILEGE | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 201 | century | 2 | PERIOD | liberal government , 1905-1915 appointment and cabinet sketch of campbell-bannerman the liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in december 1905 when arthur balfour resigned as prime minister , prompting edward vii to invite campbell-bannerman to form a minority government as the first liberal prime minister of the 20th century . | |
| 202 | school meals | 2 | PERSON | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 203 | belmont castle | 2 | PERSON | they also had an occasional home at belmont castle , meigle , in scotland . | |
| 204 | self government | 2 | GOVERNMENT | ||
| 205 | health | 2 | PROPERTY | campbell-bannerman resigned as prime minister in april 1908 due to ill health and was replaced by his chancellor , h. h. asquith . | |
| 206 | w. campbell | 2 | PERSON | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 207 | positions | 2 | POSITION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 208 | foes | 2 | UNKNOWN | ireland has certainly lost one of her truest friends , and what is true of ireland is true of every section of the community of this empire which has a fight to maintain against powerful foes . | |
| 209 | women | 2 | PERSON | asquith , many far-reaching reforms were implemented , but campbell-bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation from representatives of 25 women 's suffragist groups ( representing 1,000 women ) though he said that his cabinet would object to this change . | |
| 210 | henry campbell | 2 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 211 | representatives | 2 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman got on well with labour leaders , and he said in 1903 " we are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of labour . | |
| 212 | name | 2 | NAME | for other people with this name , see campbell-bannerman ( surname ) . | |
| 213 | h. h. asquith leader | 1 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 214 | surname bannerman | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 215 | touch | 1 | EVENT | then came the crowning touch of the interview . | |
| 216 | housing | 1 | ACQUISITION | during his time as prime minister , campbell-bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . | |
| 217 | son | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september 1836 at kelvinside house in glasgow as henry campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to james campbell of stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . | |
| 218 | westminster abbey | 1 | PERSON | his bronze bust , sculpted by paul raphael montford , is in westminster abbey . | |
| 219 | wars | 1 | EVENT | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 220 | peers | 1 | PERSON | bills of 1906 and 1907 were rejected by both party supporters and unionist peers . | |
| 221 | dealings | 1 | UNKNOWN | campbell-bannerman was passive and uninvolved in his dealings with the cabinet , leading to diffuse debates and ill-focused methods of handling business . | |
| 222 | william campbell | 1 | PERSON | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 223 | measures | 1 | MEASURE | during his time as prime minister , campbell-bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . | |
| 224 | anything | 1 | ANYTHING | the liberal imperialist richard haldane claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old tory , c.b. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . | |
| 225 | bohemia | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 226 | relative | 1 | EVENT | david lloyd george said on hearing of campbell-bannerman 's death : i think it will be felt by the community as a whole as if they had lost a relative . | |
| 227 | incident | 1 | EVENT | in 1906 , campbell-bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident with the russian government when he responded to tsar nicholas ii 's dissolution of the duma with a speech in which he declared , " the duma is dead ; long live the duma ! " | |
| 228 | moment | 1 | PERIOD | campbell-bannerman and charlotte were an exceptionally close couple throughout their marriage ; in the words of one historian , they " shared every thought and possible moment " . | |
| 229 | minority government | 1 | GOVERNMENT | liberal government , 1905-1915 appointment and cabinet sketch of campbell-bannerman the liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in december 1905 when arthur balfour resigned as prime minister , prompting edward vii to invite campbell-bannerman to form a minority government as the first liberal prime minister of the 20th century . | |
| 230 | shoals | 1 | PORTION | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 231 | notion | 1 | SUBSTANCE | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 232 | parliamentary | 1 | UNKNOWN | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 233 | reasons | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 234 | edward stanhope | 1 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 235 | reform program | 1 | PROGRAM | campbell-bannerman had no apparent plan to circumvent the lords ' veto and did little to stimulate the social reform program . | |
| 236 | humours | 1 | STATE | he was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . | |
| 237 | party liberal spouse charlotte bruce | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 238 | lord loreburn | 1 | PERSON | the radical members of the cabinet such as lord loreburn , lord morley and lord bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the french . | |
| 239 | relationship | 1 | RELATIONSHIP | punch cartoon dated 19 february 1908 , making fun of the relationship between house of commons ( henry campbell-bannerman ) and house of lords ( lord lansdowne ) . | |
| 240 | homage | 1 | ASSET | ..he has gone to his rest , and to-day in this house , of which he was the senior and the most honoured member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — | |
| 241 | section | 1 | ESTATE | ireland has certainly lost one of her truest friends , and what is true of ireland is true of every section of the community of this empire which has a fight to maintain against powerful foes . | |
| 242 | lord chancellor | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 243 | cranbrook | 1 | UNKNOWN | february 1886 - 20 july 1886 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by gathorne gathorne-hardy , 1st earl of cranbrook succeeded by william henry smith chief secretary for ireland | |
| 244 | commerce depend | 1 | UNKNOWN | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 245 | bounty | 1 | RESULT | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 246 | learning | 1 | ACT | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 247 | biographer john wilson | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman 's biographer john wilson has described the meeting as " a clash between two fundamentally different philosophies " . | |
| 248 | cent | 1 | QUANTITY | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 249 | energy | 1 | ENERGY | we are satisfied that it is right because it gives the freest play to individual energy and initiative and character and the largest liberty both to producer and consumer . | |
| 250 | fowler | 1 | PERSON | fowler - chancellor of the duchy of lancaster * john sinclair - | |
| 251 | stone plaque | 1 | PERSON | a relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial . | |
| 252 | dust | 1 | DUST | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 253 | fun | 1 | PERSON | punch cartoon dated 19 february 1908 , making fun of the relationship between house of commons ( henry campbell-bannerman ) and house of lords ( lord lansdowne ) . | |
| 254 | comment | 1 | EVENT | despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the labour movement , he was not a socialist . | |
| 255 | plaything | 1 | EVENT | expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . | |
| 256 | limitation | 1 | VALUE | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 257 | earl loreburn | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 258 | nave wall | 1 | PERSON | st mary 's church , hunton ( english heritage legacy id : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet on the nave wall dedicated to henry campbell-bannerman . | |
| 259 | contact | 1 | ACT | i have never met a great public figure since i have been in politics who so completely won the attachment and affection of the men who came into contact with him . | |
| 260 | south african war | 1 | EVENT | for my own part , i do not believe that we should have been confronted by the spectre of protection if it had not been for the south african war . | |
| 261 | resentments | 1 | PERSON | he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . | |
| 262 | penalties | 1 | INSTANCE | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 263 | commander in chief | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 264 | stunning victory | 1 | PERSON | the defeat of the relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in british political history " . | |
| 265 | third class degree | 1 | PROCESS | ||
| 266 | italy marches | 1 | PLACE | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 267 | duke | 1 | PERSON | he persuaded the duke of cambridge , the queen 's cousin , to resign as commander-in-chief of the british armed forces . | |
| 268 | constituencies | 1 | PERSON | in essence , he maintained that the predominance of the commons must prevail , without any appeal to the constituencies ( i.e. a further general election ) . | |
| 269 | robert reid | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 270 | nothing | 1 | PERSON | lord of himself , though not of lands , and , having nothing , yet hath all . robert smillie , the trade unionist and labour mp , said that , after gladstone , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . | |
| 271 | lieutenant | 1 | PERSON | he was also commissioned as a lieutenant into the 53rd lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps , which was recruited from employees of the firm , and in 1867 was promoted to captain . | |
| 272 | defence matters | 1 | STATE | when cardwell was raised to the peerage , campbell-bannerman became the liberal government 's chief spokesman on defence matters in the house of commons . | |
| 273 | liberal member | 1 | PERSON | however , at the general election in november of that year , campbell-bannerman defeated ramsay and was elected to the house of commons as the liberal member of parliament for stirling burghs , a constituency that he would go on to represent for almost forty years . | |
| 274 | bands | 1 | ACT | this man is freed from servile bands | |
| 275 | freedom | 1 | PERSON | according to one study , campbell-bannerman 's views " were broadly those of the party 's centre-left : a belief in individual freedom , a desire to help the disadvantaged , an aversion to imperialism and support for irish self-government . " | |
| 276 | south african prime minister | 1 | HUMAN ROLE | the first south african prime minister , general louis botha , believed that " campbell-bannerman 's act had redressed the balance of the anglo-boer war , or had , at any rate , given full power to the south africans themselves to redress it " . | |
| 277 | platform | 1 | LIGHT | in his first public speech as prime minister on 22 december 1905 , campbell-bannerman launched the liberal election campaign , focusing on the traditional liberal platform of " peace , retrenchment and reform " : | |
| 278 | worshipper | 1 | PERSON | and now almost the last true worshipper at those large , equivocal altars lay dead " . | |
| 279 | hours | 1 | PERIOD | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 280 | whereas | 1 | UNKNOWN | whereas in the past it had never been used formally , campbell-bannerman was the first first lord of the treasury to be given official use of the title " prime minister " , a standard that continues to the present day . | |
| 281 | british expeditionary | 1 | PERSON | this was the origin of the british expeditionary | |
| 282 | sir | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 283 | visions | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was not ashamed , even on the verge of old age , to see visions and to dream dreams . | |
| 284 | boon | 1 | PERSON | sir , of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest . | |
| 285 | dominance | 1 | EVENT | he was part of a period of scottish dominance in the prime minister role and he represented scotland 's full integration into the political realm . | |
| 286 | st mary | 1 | PERSON | st mary 's church , hunton ( english heritage legacy id : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet on the nave wall dedicated to henry campbell-bannerman . | |
| 287 | hunton court | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 288 | pass | 1 | ACT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 289 | first commissioner | 1 | PERSON | march 1907 - lewis harcourt , the first commissioner of works , enters the cabinet . | |
| 290 | lord salisbury | 1 | PERSON | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 291 | soldiers | 1 | GROUP | these included the plan to send one hundred thousand british soldiers to france within two weeks of a franco-german war . | |
| 292 | elements | 1 | ELEMENT | despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the labour movement , he was not a socialist . | |
| 293 | lord ripon | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 294 | elgin | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 295 | anatole france | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman had a deep appreciation for french culture , and particularly enjoyed the novels of anatole france . | |
| 296 | january | 1 | PERIOD | in january 1906 | |
| 297 | spokesman | 1 | PERSON | when cardwell was raised to the peerage , campbell-bannerman became the liberal government 's chief spokesman on defence matters in the house of commons . | |
| 298 | barbara tuchman | 1 | PERSON | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 299 | boers | 1 | PERSON | however the unionist politician lord milner opposed it , saying in august 1907 : " people here - not only liberals - seem delighted , and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows for having given south africa back to the boers . | |
| 300 | statesman | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 301 | weeds | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 302 | act | 1 | ACT | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 303 | marble tablet | 1 | FOOD | st mary 's church , hunton ( english heritage legacy id : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet on the nave wall dedicated to henry campbell-bannerman . | |
| 304 | turn | 1 | AMOUNT | not long after he became father of the house in 1907 , campbell-bannerman 's health took a turn for the worse . | |
| 305 | colleagues | 1 | PERSON | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 306 | herbert gladstone | 1 | PERSON | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 307 | voting | 1 | PERSON | major bills such as plural voting , land reform , and licensing reform were shredded in the lords . | |
| 308 | wonderland | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 309 | plight | 1 | STATE | one biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . | |
| 310 | fighter | 1 | SET | he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . | |
| 311 | british empire | 1 | STATE | campbell-bannerman 's government granted the boer states , the transvaal and the orange river colony , self-government within the british empire through an order in council so as to bypass the house of lords . | |
| 312 | jan smuts | 1 | PERSON | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 313 | competence | 1 | EVENT | as a result , his competence was severely questioned . | |
| 314 | tribute | 1 | QUANTITY | john redmond , the leader of the irish nationalist party , paid tribute to campbell-bannerman by saying that " we all feel that ireland has lost a brave and considerate friend " . | |
| 315 | lord bryce | 1 | PERSON | the radical members of the cabinet such as lord loreburn , lord morley and lord bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the french . | |
| 316 | aftermath | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman remained both a member of parliament and leader of the liberal party , and continued to live at 10 downing street in the immediate aftermath of his resignation , intending to make other arrangements in the near future . | |
| 317 | a...return | 1 | UNKNOWN | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 318 | life henry campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 319 | subject | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 320 | office december | 1 | PERIOD | ||
| 321 | premiership | 1 | POSITION | nonetheless , his premiership saw the entente with russia in 1907 , brought about principally by the foreign secretary , edward grey . | |
| 322 | protection root | 1 | ESTATE | that at least is why i oppose protection root and branch , veiled and unveiled , one-sided or reciprocal . | |
| 323 | suffragist groups | 1 | GROUP | asquith , many far-reaching reforms were implemented , but campbell-bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation from representatives of 25 women 's suffragist groups ( representing 1,000 women ) though he said that his cabinet would object to this change . | |
| 324 | subside | 1 | UNKNOWN | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 325 | countrymen | 1 | PERSON | we believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen . | |
| 326 | classes | 1 | UNKNOWN | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 327 | kelvinside house | 1 | PLACE | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 328 | portrait | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 329 | anglo boer war | 1 | EVENT | ||
| 330 | cardwell | 1 | PERSON | financial secretary to the war office in gladstone 's first government in november 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under edward cardwell , the secretary of state for war . | |
| 331 | mines | 1 | PERSON | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 332 | brow | 1 | PERSON | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 333 | lord privy seal | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 334 | capacity | 1 | ARTIFACT | we believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen . | |
| 335 | forward | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | he never put himself forward , yet no one had greater tenacity of purpose . | |
| 336 | stracathro estate | 1 | ESTATE | henry campbell-bannerman had an older brother , james alexander campbell , who in 1876 inherited their father 's 4000-acre stracathro estate . | |
| 337 | novels | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman had a deep appreciation for french culture , and particularly enjoyed the novels of anatole france . | |
| 338 | caroline lewis | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 339 | estate | 1 | ESTATE | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 340 | centre left | 1 | EVENT | ||
| 341 | john wilson | 1 | PERSON | another later biographer , john wilson , called campbell-bannerman a moderate social reformer , stating that campbell-bannerman favoured a better deal for the poor and the workers but like gladstone he was opposed to too much state interference . | |
| 342 | recesses | 1 | RANK | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 343 | others | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . | |
| 344 | trinity college | 1 | INSTITUTION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 345 | glasgow constituency | 1 | PLACE | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 346 | intention | 1 | EVENT | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 347 | word socialism | 1 | GROUP | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 348 | gathorne gathorne hardy | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 349 | peerage | 1 | COLLECTION | when cardwell was raised to the peerage , campbell-bannerman became the liberal government 's chief spokesman on defence matters in the house of commons . | |
| 350 | consensus | 1 | FORCE | the bills that were passed were either technical or the result of cross-party consensus . | |
| 351 | subsidies | 1 | MONEY | the conservative government of arthur balfour had threatened countervailing duties and subsidies of west indian sugar producers as a negotiating tool . | |
| 352 | war offices | 1 | FUNCTION | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 353 | james alexander campbell | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman had an older brother , james alexander campbell , who in 1876 inherited their father 's 4000-acre stracathro estate . | |
| 354 | lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps | 1 | PLACE | he was also commissioned as a lieutenant into the 53rd lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps , which was recruited from employees of the firm , and in 1867 was promoted to captain . | |
| 355 | retirement | 1 | ACT | retirement and death | |
| 356 | essence | 1 | STATE | in essence , he maintained that the predominance of the commons must prevail , without any appeal to the constituencies ( i.e. a further general election ) . | |
| 357 | j. stafford | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 358 | transvaal | 1 | UNKNOWN | campbell-bannerman 's government granted the boer states , the transvaal and the orange river colony , self-government within the british empire through an order in council so as to bypass the house of lords . | |
| 359 | damages | 1 | EVENT | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 360 | problems | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 361 | churchyard | 1 | PIECE | campbell-bannerman was buried in the churchyard of meigle parish church , perthshire , near belmont castle , his home since 1887 . | |
| 362 | tenacity | 1 | PROCESS | he never put himself forward , yet no one had greater tenacity of purpose . | |
| 363 | knighthood | 1 | PERSON | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 364 | labour leaders | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman got on well with labour leaders , and he said in 1903 " we are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of labour . | |
| 365 | historian george dangerfield | 1 | PERSON | historian george dangerfield in 1935 concluded that campbell-bannerman 's death " was like the passing of true liberalism . | |
| 366 | kent | 1 | PLACE | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 367 | britisher | 1 | UNKNOWN | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 368 | fellows | 1 | PERSON | however the unionist politician lord milner opposed it , saying in august 1907 : " people here - not only liberals - seem delighted , and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows for having given south africa back to the boers . | |
| 369 | coast | 1 | UNKNOWN | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 370 | injustices | 1 | POWER | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 371 | stone | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman and his wife were both reported to be enormous eaters , and in their later years each weighed nearly 20 stone ( 130 kg ; 280 lb ) . | |
| 372 | nobody | 1 | PERSON | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 373 | causes | 1 | CAUSE | great causes appealed to him . | |
| 374 | temperament | 1 | EVENT | in politics i think he may be fairly described as an idealist in aim , and an optimist by temperament . | |
| 375 | sydney buxton | 1 | PERSON | sydney buxton - postmaster-general changes * | |
| 376 | aim | 1 | PERSON | in politics i think he may be fairly described as an idealist in aim , and an optimist by temperament . | |
| 377 | material upon | 1 | UNKNOWN | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 378 | william ewart gladstone | 1 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 379 | william sharp mckechnie | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 380 | bolton | 1 | PERSON | in a speech at bolton on 15 october 1903 , he explained in greater detail the reasoning behind liberal support for free trade . | |
| 381 | criticisms | 1 | ACT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 382 | assurance | 1 | PERSON | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 383 | irish secretary | 1 | PERSON | january 1907 - augustine birrell succeeds bryce as irish secretary . | |
| 384 | journalist | 1 | PERSON | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 385 | foundation | 1 | GROUP | however , historians have identified a few positive aspects of his tenure , including laying the foundation for a more effective government under asquith . | |
| 386 | wholesale | 1 | UNKNOWN | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 387 | cabinets | 1 | PERSON | he also was secretary of state for war twice , in the cabinets of gladstone and rosebery . | |
| 388 | glasgow trinity college | 1 | INSTITUTION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 389 | convention tariff | 1 | PERSON | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 390 | december monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 391 | william henry smith chief secretary | 1 | PERSON | february 1886 - 20 july 1886 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by gathorne gathorne-hardy , 1st earl of cranbrook succeeded by william henry smith chief secretary for ireland | |
| 392 | great war | 1 | EVENT | force that would be sent to france in 1914 at the start of the great war with germany . | |
| 393 | admiration | 1 | EVENT | what was the secret of the hold which in these later days he unquestionably had on the admiration and affection of men of all parties and all creeds ? | |
| 394 | queen | 1 | PERSON | he persuaded the duke of cambridge , the queen 's cousin , to resign as commander-in-chief of the british armed forces . | |
| 395 | rocks | 1 | EVENT | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 396 | study | 1 | STUDY | according to one study , campbell-bannerman 's views " were broadly those of the party 's centre-left : a belief in individual freedom , a desire to help the disadvantaged , an aversion to imperialism and support for irish self-government . " | |
| 397 | education act | 1 | ACT | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 398 | family firm | 1 | INSTITUTION | after graduating , he joined the family firm of j. & w. campbell & co. , based in glasgow 's ingram | |
| 399 | bronze bust | 1 | PERSON | his bronze bust , sculpted by paul raphael montford , is in westminster abbey . | |
| 400 | election address | 1 | UNKNOWN | in his election address , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . | |
| 401 | marriage | 1 | ACT | marriage | |
| 402 | addition | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 403 | meigle parish church | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 404 | trade unionist | 1 | PERSON | lord of himself , though not of lands , and , having nothing , yet hath all . robert smillie , the trade unionist and labour mp , said that , after gladstone , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . | |
| 405 | employer | 1 | PERSON | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 406 | oxford dictionary | 1 | PERSON | a. j. a. morris , in the oxford dictionary of national biography , called him " britain 's first and only radical prime minister " . | |
| 407 | fabric | 1 | MATERIAL | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 408 | violet cecil | 1 | PERSON | not long after this violet cecil met clemenceau and she wrote down what he had said to her about the meeting : clemenceau said... | |
| 409 | gennings park | 1 | PLACE | for their country residence , campbell-bannerman and his wife lived elsewhere , including gennings park , which they did not leave until 1887 . | |
| 410 | right honourable sir henry campbell bannerman gcb portrait | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 411 | english | 1 | EVENT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 412 | april monarch edward vii | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 413 | hope | 1 | EVENT | of hope to rise or fear to fall ; | |
| 414 | landlords | 1 | PERSON | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 415 | clairmont gardens | 1 | PERSON | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 416 | uk parliamentary majority | 1 | PROPERTY | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 417 | surname | 1 | PERSON | for other people with this name , see campbell-bannerman ( surname ) . | |
| 418 | general election defeat | 1 | ACT | ||
| 419 | mind | 1 | FIGURE | clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the british government , he has done with us . | |
| 420 | tragedy | 1 | SITUATION | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 421 | conservative member | 1 | PERSON | he served as the conservative member of parliament for glasgow and aberdeen universities from 1880 to 1906 . | |
| 422 | memorial | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | a relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial . | |
| 423 | page | 1 | INSTANCE | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 424 | philosophies | 1 | STATE | campbell-bannerman 's biographer john wilson has described the meeting as " a clash between two fundamentally different philosophies " . | |
| 425 | motion | 1 | ACTION | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 426 | effort | 1 | ACTION | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 427 | lord lansdowne | 1 | PERSON | punch cartoon dated 19 february 1908 , making fun of the relationship between house of commons ( henry campbell-bannerman ) and house of lords ( lord lansdowne ) . | |
| 428 | amount | 1 | AMOUNT | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 429 | gladstonian liberal | 1 | PERSON | however the historian a. j. a . morris disagreed with this judgment , stating that campbell-bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a gladstonian liberal who favoured retrenchment in public expenditure that was perhaps at odds with any ambitious scheme of social reform . | |
| 430 | expenditure | 1 | AMOUNT | expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . | |
| 431 | unionist mps | 1 | UNKNOWN | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 432 | workmen | 1 | UNKNOWN | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 433 | constituency | 1 | PERSON | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 434 | plaque | 1 | PERSON | a relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial . | |
| 435 | chief whip herbert gladstone | 1 | PERSON | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 436 | progress | 1 | EVENT | he had a single-minded and unquenchable faith in the unceasing progress and the growing unity of mankind... | |
| 437 | a. j. a | 1 | PERSON | a. j. a morris , in the oxford dictionary of national biography , called him " britain 's first and only radical prime minister " . | |
| 438 | strike action | 1 | ACTION | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 439 | water | 1 | WATER | cb said that ' sunshine must be allowed to stream in , the water and the food must be kept pure and unadulterated , the streets light and clean ' . | |
| 440 | vote | 1 | ACT | in 1895 , campbell unwittingly caused the fall of rosebery 's ministry , when the earl 's government lost a vote over c.b. 's handling of cordite reserves . | |
| 441 | article | 1 | ARTICLE | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 442 | wall | 1 | PERSON | a relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial . | |
| 443 | handling | 1 | AMOUNT | in 1895 , campbell unwittingly caused the fall of rosebery 's ministry , when the earl 's government lost a vote over c.b. 's handling of cordite reserves . | |
| 444 | pace | 1 | PACE | however , his health began to decline at an even quicker pace than before , and he died on 22 april 1908 , nineteen days after his resignation . | |
| 445 | departure | 1 | EVENT | it was not until campbell-bannerman 's departure that the doctrines of new liberalism came to be implemented . | |
| 446 | countervailing duties | 1 | ACT | the conservative government of arthur balfour had threatened countervailing duties and subsidies of west indian sugar producers as a negotiating tool . | |
| 447 | hold | 1 | AGREEMENT | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 448 | lord morley | 1 | PERSON | the radical members of the cabinet such as lord loreburn , lord morley and lord bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the french . | |
| 449 | long parliament | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 450 | pensions | 1 | INSTANCE | during his time as prime minister , campbell-bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . | |
| 451 | by election | 1 | POWER | ||
| 452 | tender | 1 | PERSON | ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender in his sympathies , always disposed to despise victories won in any sphere by mere brute force , an almost passionate lover of peace . | |
| 453 | lansdowne | 1 | PERSON | august 1892 - 21 june 1895 prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose , 5th earl of rosebery preceded by edward stanhope succeeded by henry petty-fitzmaurice , 5th marquess of lansdowne | |
| 454 | democracy | 1 | QUALITY | he had no misgivings as to the future of democracy . | |
| 455 | projectiles | 1 | PROJECTILE | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 456 | strife | 1 | AMOUNT | ..he has gone to his rest , and to-day in this house , of which he was the senior and the most honoured member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — | |
| 457 | magnanimity | 1 | QUALITY | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 458 | course | 1 | PERSON | we say that trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course , and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles.... | |
| 459 | nature | 1 | NATURE | however , it was joseph chamberlain 's proposals for tariff reform in may 1903 that provided the liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . | |
| 460 | marienbad | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 461 | censure | 1 | ACT | unionist mps unexpectedly forced a successful motion of censure , and the failure led to rosebery 's resignation and the return to power of lord salisbury . | |
| 462 | knight grand cross | 1 | PERSON | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 463 | constitution | 1 | PERSON | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 464 | ghost | 1 | GHOST | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 465 | detail | 1 | EVENT | in a speech at bolton on 15 october 1903 , he explained in greater detail the reasoning behind liberal support for free trade . | |
| 466 | bills | 1 | DOCUMENT | major bills such as plural voting , land reform , and licensing reform were shredded in the lords . | |
| 467 | vintage | 1 | SITUATION | r. b . mccallum stated that " campbell-bannerman was of pure gladstonian vintage and a hero to the radicals " . | |
| 468 | misery | 1 | CONDITION | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 469 | places | 1 | PLACE | the masses of the people of this country , especially the more unfortunate of them , have lost the best friend they ever had in the high places of the land . | |
| 470 | fall | 1 | PERSON | in 1895 , campbell unwittingly caused the fall of rosebery 's ministry , when the earl 's government lost a vote over c.b. 's handling of cordite reserves . | |
| 471 | union | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 472 | origin | 1 | ARTIFACT | this was the origin of the british expeditionary | |
| 473 | arrangements | 1 | ARRANGEMENT | campbell-bannerman remained both a member of parliament and leader of the liberal party , and continued to live at 10 downing street in the immediate aftermath of his resignation , intending to make other arrangements in the near future . | |
| 474 | weeks | 1 | PERIOD | these included the plan to send one hundred thousand british soldiers to france within two weeks of a franco-german war . | |
| 475 | john redmond | 1 | PERSON | john redmond , the leader of the irish nationalist party , paid tribute to campbell-bannerman by saying that " we all feel that ireland has lost a brave and considerate friend " . | |
| 476 | major bills | 1 | DOCUMENT | major bills such as plural voting , land reform , and licensing reform were shredded in the lords . | |
| 477 | eaters | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman and his wife were both reported to be enormous eaters , and in their later years each weighed nearly 20 stone ( 130 kg ; 280 lb ) . | |
| 478 | apostle | 1 | PERSON | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 479 | attachment | 1 | PERSON | i have never met a great public figure since i have been in politics who so completely won the attachment and affection of the men who came into contact with him . | |
| 480 | justice | 1 | PROPERTY | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 481 | improvement | 1 | AGREEMENT | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 482 | russia | 1 | PLACE | nonetheless , his premiership saw the entente with russia in 1907 , brought about principally by the foreign secretary , edward grey . | |
| 483 | probation | 1 | EVENT | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 484 | west end | 1 | PLACE | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 485 | temper | 1 | STATE | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 486 | firm believer | 1 | PERSON | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 487 | georges clemenceau | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman visited france in april 1907 and met the radical prime minister , georges clemenceau . | |
| 488 | sunshine | 1 | PERSON | cb said that ' sunshine must be allowed to stream in , the water and the food must be kept pure and unadulterated , the streets light and clean ' . | |
| 489 | expenditure calls | 1 | UNKNOWN | expenditure calls for taxes , and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer . | |
| 490 | funeral | 1 | ACTION | in an uncharacteristically emotional speech on 27 april , the day of campbell-bannerman 's funeral , his successor h. h. asquith told the house of commons : | |
| 491 | past | 1 | PERIOD | whereas in the past it had never been used formally , campbell-bannerman was the first first lord of the treasury to be given official use of the title " prime minister " , a standard that continues to the present day . | |
| 492 | odds | 1 | UNKNOWN | however the historian a. j. a . morris disagreed with this judgment , stating that campbell-bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a gladstonian liberal who favoured retrenchment in public expenditure that was perhaps at odds with any ambitious scheme of social reform . | |
| 493 | joseph chamberlain | 1 | PERSON | however , it was joseph chamberlain 's proposals for tariff reform in may 1903 that provided the liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . | |
| 494 | boer general | 1 | PERSON | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 495 | defiant | 1 | PERSON | and yet we have not seen in our time a man of greater courage— courage not of the defiant or aggressive type , but calm , patient , persistent , indomitable. | |
| 496 | optimist | 1 | TENDENCY | in politics i think he may be fairly described as an idealist in aim , and an optimist by temperament . | |
| 497 | information | 1 | INFORMATION | further information : | |
| 498 | extravagance | 1 | AMOUNT | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 499 | cousin | 1 | PERSON | he persuaded the duke of cambridge , the queen 's cousin , to resign as commander-in-chief of the british armed forces . | |
| 500 | june prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 501 | victor bruce | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 502 | stirling burghs constituency | 1 | PERSON | member of parliament in april 1868 , at the age of thirty-one , campbell-bannerman stood as a liberal candidate in a by-election for the stirling burghs constituency , narrowly losing to fellow liberal john ramsay . | |
| 503 | flower | 1 | PERSON | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 504 | radicals | 1 | RESOURCE | r. b . mccallum stated that " campbell-bannerman was of pure gladstonian vintage and a hero to the radicals " . | |
| 505 | situation | 1 | SITUATION | he was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . | |
| 506 | business experience | 1 | EFFECT | additionally , campbell-bannerman was the first prime minister with direct business experience and not from a landed , anglican background . | |
| 507 | background | 1 | INFORMATION | additionally , campbell-bannerman was the first prime minister with direct business experience and not from a landed , anglican background . | |
| 508 | history | 1 | INSTANCE | the defeat of the relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in british political history " . | |
| 509 | issue | 1 | EVENT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 510 | hague conference | 1 | PLACE | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 511 | ramsay macdonald | 1 | PERSON | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 512 | boer states | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman 's government granted the boer states , the transvaal and the orange river colony , self-government within the british empire through an order in council so as to bypass the house of lords . | |
| 513 | great britain | 1 | PLACE | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 514 | orders | 1 | GARMENT | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 515 | streets | 1 | POSITION | cb said that ' sunshine must be allowed to stream in , the water and the food must be kept pure and unadulterated , the streets light and clean ' . | |
| 516 | half mast | 1 | PLACE | ||
| 517 | plans | 1 | PLAN | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 518 | hague convention | 1 | PLACE | imperial conference campbell-bannerman 's first speech as prime minister endorsed the intent of the hague convention of 1907 to limit armaments . | |
| 519 | lewis carroll novel alice | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 520 | period | 1 | PERIOD | he was part of a period of scottish dominance in the prime minister role and he represented scotland 's full integration into the political realm . | |
| 521 | problem | 1 | EVENT | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 522 | confidence | 1 | EMOTION | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 523 | law | 1 | PERSON | in his election address , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . | |
| 524 | earl carrington | 1 | PERSON | charles wynn-carington , earl carrington - | |
| 525 | sense | 1 | PROCESS | certainly those who have been associated with him closely for years will feel a deep sense of personal bereavement . | |
| 526 | fortune | 1 | PERSON | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 527 | idealist | 1 | PERSON | in politics i think he may be fairly described as an idealist in aim , and an optimist by temperament . | |
| 528 | maddest | 1 | UNKNOWN | sir , of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest . | |
| 529 | english heritage legacy id | 1 | PERSON | st mary 's church , hunton ( english heritage legacy id : 432265 ) contains a marble tablet on the nave wall dedicated to henry campbell-bannerman . | |
| 530 | scheme | 1 | FIGURE | however the historian a. j. a . morris disagreed with this judgment , stating that campbell-bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a gladstonian liberal who favoured retrenchment in public expenditure that was perhaps at odds with any ambitious scheme of social reform . | |
| 531 | july prime minister william ewart gladstone | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 532 | resignation honours | 1 | UNKNOWN | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 533 | arthur peel | 1 | PERSON | after the 1895 general election , campbell-bannerman lobbied strongly to succeed arthur peel as speaker of the house of commons , in part because he sought a less stressful role in public life . | |
| 534 | works | 1 | UNKNOWN | march 1907 - lewis harcourt , the first commissioner of works , enters the cabinet . | |
| 535 | cobden club | 1 | INSTITUTION | in a speech to the cobden club on 28 november 1902 , campbell-bannerman denounced the convention as threatening the sovereignty of britain . | |
| 536 | lapse | 1 | PERSON | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 537 | tool | 1 | TOOL | the conservative government of arthur balfour had threatened countervailing duties and subsidies of west indian sugar producers as a negotiating tool . | |
| 538 | defense interests | 1 | UNKNOWN | he failed to supervise grey 's foreign policy , he failed to consult the full cabinet before initiating momentous discussions on defense interests with the french in 1906 . | |
| 539 | cultivation | 1 | STUDY | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 540 | desire | 1 | EVENT | according to one study , campbell-bannerman 's views " were broadly those of the party 's centre-left : a belief in individual freedom , a desire to help the disadvantaged , an aversion to imperialism and support for irish self-government . " | |
| 541 | pseudonym | 1 | NAME | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 542 | planning | 1 | ACT | during his time as prime minister , campbell-bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . | |
| 543 | sarah charlotte bruce | 1 | PERSON | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 544 | henry | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 545 | friedrich hayek | 1 | PERSON | friedrich hayek said : " perhaps the government of sir henry campbell-bannerman... | |
| 546 | offenders act | 1 | ACT | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 547 | requirement | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 548 | supervision | 1 | ACT | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 549 | campbell | 1 | PERSON | prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 " campbell bannerman " redirects here . | |
| 550 | historians blue plaque | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 551 | appeal | 1 | PERSON | in essence , he maintained that the predominance of the commons must prevail , without any appeal to the constituencies ( i.e. a further general election ) . | |
| 552 | public | 1 | UNKNOWN | after the 1895 general election , campbell-bannerman lobbied strongly to succeed arthur peel as speaker of the house of commons , in part because he sought a less stressful role in public life . | |
| 553 | envy | 1 | PERSON | besides we have experience of fifty years , during which our prosperity has become the envy of the world . | |
| 554 | results | 1 | RESULT | the results demonstrated that there was no loss in production . | |
| 555 | lewis harcourt | 1 | PERSON | march 1907 - lewis harcourt , the first commissioner of works , enters the cabinet . | |
| 556 | parody novels | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 557 | tsar nicholas ii | 1 | PERSON | in 1906 , campbell-bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident with the russian government when he responded to tsar nicholas ii 's dissolution of the duma with a speech in which he declared , " the duma is dead ; long live the duma ! " | |
| 558 | heart attacks | 1 | EVENT | following a series of heart attacks , the most serious in november 1907 , he began to fear that he would not be able to survive to the end of his term . | |
| 559 | gradual | 1 | STATE | the convention 's intent was to lead to the gradual phasing out of export bounties , and britain would then forbid the importation of subsidised sugar . | |
| 560 | lunacy | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | i think it all sheer lunacy " . | |
| 561 | change | 1 | UNKNOWN | asquith , many far-reaching reforms were implemented , but campbell-bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation from representatives of 25 women 's suffragist groups ( representing 1,000 women ) though he said that his cabinet would object to this change . | |
| 562 | interview | 1 | PERSON | then came the crowning touch of the interview . | |
| 563 | chamberlain | 1 | PERSON | however , it was joseph chamberlain 's proposals for tariff reform in may 1903 that provided the liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . | |
| 564 | land reform | 1 | PERSON | major bills such as plural voting , land reform , and licensing reform were shredded in the lords . | |
| 565 | blinds | 1 | PERSON | on the day of campbell-bannerman 's death the flag of the national liberal club was lowered to half-mast , the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning . | |
| 566 | robes | 1 | ROOM | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 567 | support | 1 | SET | in a speech at bolton on 15 october 1903 , he explained in greater detail the reasoning behind liberal support for free trade . | |
| 568 | portions | 1 | PORTION | henry had believed in peace , retrenchment , and reform , those amiable deities who presided so complacently over large portions of the victorian era... | |
| 569 | profile | 1 | RANK | charlotte may have been the person who mostly encouraged campbell-bannerman to stand for election , given his local profile . | |
| 570 | c.b | 1 | UNKNOWN | he did not like the " horrid long name " that resulted and invited friends to call him " c.b . " instead . | |
| 571 | prison | 1 | SOFTWARE | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 572 | january grey | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 573 | ministry | 1 | INSTITUTION | in 1895 , campbell unwittingly caused the fall of rosebery 's ministry , when the earl 's government lost a vote over c.b. 's handling of cordite reserves . | |
| 574 | friction | 1 | FORCE | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 575 | futility | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 576 | judgment | 1 | ACT | however the historian a. j. a . morris disagreed with this judgment , stating that campbell-bannerman was in 1906 what he had always been : a gladstonian liberal who favoured retrenchment in public expenditure that was perhaps at odds with any ambitious scheme of social reform . | |
| 577 | national liberal club | 1 | INSTITUTION | on the day of campbell-bannerman 's death the flag of the national liberal club was lowered to half-mast , the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning . | |
| 578 | historian | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman and charlotte were an exceptionally close couple throughout their marriage ; in the words of one historian , they " shared every thought and possible moment " . | |
| 579 | production | 1 | OCCURRENCE | the results demonstrated that there was no loss in production . | |
| 580 | john sinclair | 1 | PERSON | fowler - chancellor of the duchy of lancaster * john sinclair - | |
| 581 | education bills | 1 | DOCUMENT | ||
| 582 | heart | 1 | FORCE | following a series of heart attacks , the most serious in november 1907 , he began to fear that he would not be able to survive to the end of his term . | |
| 583 | armour | 1 | PERSON | whose armour is his honest thought , and simple truth his utmost skill ; | |
| 584 | happy | 1 | PERSON | grey and haldane did not inform the cabinet is astonishing ; that a true-hearted apostle of peace like sir henry campbell-bannerman should have known of the danger and yet concealed it from his colleagues is incredible , and i am happy to conclude...with an assurance that in the days of his triumph the liberal leader , having fought a good fight , kept the faith to the end and was in no way responsible for the european tragedy that came to pass six years after his death " . | |
| 585 | memory | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | ..he has gone to his rest , and to-day in this house , of which he was the senior and the most honoured member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — | |
| 586 | british armed forces | 1 | FORCE | he persuaded the duke of cambridge , the queen 's cousin , to resign as commander-in-chief of the british armed forces . | |
| 587 | robert crewe milnes | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 588 | historians | 1 | PLACE | views of historians | |
| 589 | richard haldane | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman also faced problems within his own party , through the so-called " relugas compact " between h. h. asquith , edward grey and richard haldane , who planned to force him into the house of lords , weakening him as prime minister and effectively allowing asquith to govern as leader of the house of commons . | |
| 590 | glasgow town council | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 591 | uncle | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 592 | care | 1 | CONDITION | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 593 | truth | 1 | EVENT | whose armour is his honest thought , and simple truth his utmost skill ; | |
| 594 | task | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman faced the difficult task of holding together the strongly divided party , which was subsequently and unsurprisingly defeated in the " khaki election " of 1900 . | |
| 595 | john burns | 1 | PERSON | secretary for scotland * james bryce - chief secretary for ireland * john burns - | |
| 596 | spectre | 1 | UNKNOWN | for my own part , i do not believe that we should have been confronted by the spectre of protection if it had not been for the south african war . | |
| 597 | realm | 1 | NUMBER | he was part of a period of scottish dominance in the prime minister role and he represented scotland 's full integration into the political realm . | |
| 598 | south africans | 1 | PLACE | the first south african prime minister , general louis botha , believed that " campbell-bannerman 's act had redressed the balance of the anglo-boer war , or had , at any rate , given full power to the south africans themselves to redress it " . | |
| 599 | commission | 1 | INSTANCE | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 600 | honest | 1 | PERSON | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 601 | cordiale | 1 | UNKNOWN | clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the british government , he has done with us . | |
| 602 | cabinet sketch | 1 | SPEECH ACT | liberal government , 1905-1915 appointment and cabinet sketch of campbell-bannerman the liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in december 1905 when arthur balfour resigned as prime minister , prompting edward vii to invite campbell-bannerman to form a minority government as the first liberal prime minister of the 20th century . | |
| 603 | party man | 1 | PERSON | he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . | |
| 604 | balfour | 1 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 605 | virtue | 1 | PERSON | in 1907 , by virtue of being the member of parliament with the longest continuous service , campbell-bannerman became the father of the house , the only serving british prime minister to do so . | |
| 606 | warehousing | 1 | ACT | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 607 | integration | 1 | EVENT | he was part of a period of scottish dominance in the prime minister role and he represented scotland 's full integration into the political realm . | |
| 608 | james bryce | 1 | PERSON | secretary for scotland * james bryce - chief secretary for ireland * john burns - | |
| 609 | town | 1 | PLACE | in 1831 james campbell was elected as a member of glasgow town council and in the 1837 and 1841 general elections he stood as a conservative candidate for the glasgow constituency . | |
| 610 | favour | 1 | PERSON | in his election address , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . | |
| 611 | charles wynn carington | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 612 | argument | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 613 | date | 1 | RESULT | he remains the only person to date to hold the positions of prime minister and father of the house at the same time , and the last liberal leader to gain a uk parliamentary majority . | |
| 614 | sovereignty | 1 | PLACE | in a speech to the cobden club on 28 november 1902 , campbell-bannerman denounced the convention as threatening the sovereignty of britain . | |
| 615 | liberal party politician | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 616 | crewe | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 617 | may | 1 | PERIOD | charlotte may have been the person who mostly encouraged campbell-bannerman to stand for election , given his local profile . | |
| 618 | suffering | 1 | UNKNOWN | his sympathy in all suffering was real , deep , and unaffected . | |
| 619 | india | 1 | PLACE | secretary of state for war * john morley - secretary of state for india * edward marjoribanks , 2nd baron tweedmouth - | |
| 620 | agriculture | 1 | STUDY | president of the board of agriculture * | |
| 621 | mccallum | 1 | PERSON | r. b . mccallum stated that " campbell-bannerman was of pure gladstonian vintage and a hero to the radicals " . | |
| 622 | duchy | 1 | UNKNOWN | fowler - chancellor of the duchy of lancaster * john sinclair - | |
| 623 | halve | 1 | UNKNOWN | the conservatives saw their number of seats more than halve , and arthur balfour , now as leader of the opposition , lost his manchester east seat to the liberals . | |
| 624 | whole | 1 | UNKNOWN | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 625 | tenure | 1 | STATUS | however , historians have identified a few positive aspects of his tenure , including laying the foundation for a more effective government under asquith . | |
| 626 | skill | 1 | SKILL | whose armour is his honest thought , and simple truth his utmost skill ; | |
| 627 | legislature | 1 | BUILDING | sharp mckechnie characterised this as an " untried one-chambered legislature " and stated that " it could only be carried out by some revolutionary procedure . " | |
| 628 | ironies | 1 | ACTIVITY | he was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . | |
| 629 | liberal imperialist richard haldane | 1 | PERSON | the liberal imperialist richard haldane claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old tory , c.b. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . | |
| 630 | record | 1 | INSTANCE | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 631 | conservative party | 1 | FORCE | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 632 | usage | 1 | FORM | he was the first first lord of the treasury to be officially called the " prime minister " , the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office . | |
| 633 | team | 1 | EVENT | rosebery , backed by the liberal leader in the commons , sir william harcourt , refused since campbell-bannerman was viewed as indispensable to the government 's front-bench team in the lower house . | |
| 634 | edward vii | 1 | PERSON | in office 5 december 1905 - 3 april 1908 monarch edward vii preceded by arthur balfour succeeded by h. h. asquith leader of the opposition | |
| 635 | legislation | 1 | PERSON | the government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action , introduced free school meals for all children , and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords . | |
| 636 | defeat | 1 | ACT | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 637 | education university | 1 | INSTITUTION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 638 | members | 1 | PERSON | the radical members of the cabinet such as lord loreburn , lord morley and lord bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the french . | |
| 639 | reasoning | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | in a speech at bolton on 15 october 1903 , he explained in greater detail the reasoning behind liberal support for free trade . | |
| 640 | aunt | 1 | EVENT | for several years an aunt occupied the big house at hunton which campbell-bannerman had inherited in 1871 . | |
| 641 | status | 1 | STATUS | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 642 | colonies | 1 | UNKNOWN | secretary of state for the colonies * | |
| 643 | meigle | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 644 | october | 1 | PERIOD | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 645 | mankind | 1 | PERSON | he had a single-minded and unquenchable faith in the unceasing progress and the growing unity of mankind .. | |
| 646 | speaker | 1 | PROCESS | after the 1895 general election , campbell-bannerman lobbied strongly to succeed arthur peel as speaker of the house of commons , in part because he sought a less stressful role in public life . | |
| 647 | welfare | 1 | STATE | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 648 | figure | 1 | FIGURE | i have never met a great public figure since i have been in politics who so completely won the attachment and affection of the men who came into contact with him . | |
| 649 | sentiments | 1 | EVENT | ' the sentiments of the english people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by england on the continent under any circumstances . ' | |
| 650 | classical tripos | 1 | UNKNOWN | campbell-bannerman was educated at the high school of glasgow ( 1845-1847 ) , the university of glasgow ( 1851-1853 ) , and trinity college , cambridge ( 1854-1858 ) , where he achieved a third-class degree in the classical tripos . | |
| 651 | schemes | 1 | FIGURE | sir , of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest . | |
| 652 | doctrines | 1 | PLACE | it was not until campbell-bannerman 's departure that the doctrines of new liberalism came to be implemented . | |
| 653 | existence | 1 | ENTITY | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 654 | lrc | 1 | UNKNOWN | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 655 | monopolies | 1 | FUNCTION | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 656 | play | 1 | EVENT | we are satisfied that it is right because it gives the freest play to individual energy and initiative and character and the largest liberty both to producer and consumer . | |
| 657 | spy | 1 | RESOURCE | leader of the liberal party campbell-bannerman caricatured by spy for vanity fair , 1899 on 6 | |
| 658 | henry petty fitzmaurice | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 659 | dreams | 1 | PERSON | he was not ashamed , even on the verge of old age , to see visions and to dream dreams . | |
| 660 | lanarkshire rifles volunteers | 1 | UNKNOWN | his only military experience was thirty years earlier with the 53rd lanarkshire rifles volunteers . | |
| 661 | masses | 1 | MATERIAL | the masses of the people of this country , especially the more unfortunate of them , have lost the best friend they ever had in the high places of the land . | |
| 662 | misgivings | 1 | POSITION | he had no misgivings as to the future of democracy . | |
| 663 | paul raphael montford | 1 | PERSON | legacy statue of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views of contemporaries | |
| 664 | character | 1 | EVENT | we are satisfied that it is right because it gives the freest play to individual energy and initiative and character and the largest liberty both to producer and consumer . | |
| 665 | safeguards | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | during his time as prime minister , campbell-bannerman supported such measures as safeguards for trade unions , old-age pensions , and urban planning to improve housing . | |
| 666 | victories | 1 | CONDITION | ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender in his sympathies , always disposed to despise victories won in any sphere by mere brute force , an almost passionate lover of peace . | |
| 667 | partner | 1 | GROUP | street , and was made a partner in the firm in 1860 . | |
| 668 | wife janet bannerman | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september 1836 at kelvinside house in glasgow as henry campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to james campbell of stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . | |
| 669 | fault | 1 | QUANTITY | he was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter , a strong party man , but he harboured no resentments , and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others , whether friends or foes . | |
| 670 | orange river colony | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman 's government granted the boer states , the transvaal and the orange river colony , self-government within the british empire through an order in council so as to bypass the house of lords . | |
| 671 | unionist politician lord milner | 1 | PERSON | however the unionist politician lord milner opposed it , saying in august 1907 : " people here - not only liberals - seem delighted , and to think themselves wonderfully fine fellows for having given south africa back to the boers . | |
| 672 | local government board | 1 | PERSON | president of the local government board * | |
| 673 | cities | 1 | SET | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 674 | limitations | 1 | VALUE | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 675 | john morley | 1 | PERSON | secretary of state for war * john morley - secretary of state for india * edward marjoribanks , 2nd baron tweedmouth - | |
| 676 | lib lab pact | 1 | AGREEMENT | ||
| 677 | irish home rule | 1 | RULE | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 678 | michael henry temple | 1 | PERSON | ransome , and michael henry temple ) clara in blunderland ( 1902 ) and lost in blunderland ( 1903 ) . | |
| 679 | second chamber | 1 | PERSON | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 680 | postmaster general changes | 1 | UNKNOWN | ||
| 681 | ways | 1 | UNKNOWN | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 682 | ramsay | 1 | PERSON | member of parliament in april 1868 , at the age of thirty-one , campbell-bannerman stood as a liberal candidate in a by-election for the stirling burghs constituency , narrowly losing to fellow liberal john ramsay . | |
| 683 | high school | 1 | INSTITUTION | campbell-bannerman was educated at the high school of glasgow ( 1845-1847 ) , the university of glasgow ( 1851-1853 ) , and trinity college , cambridge ( 1854-1858 ) , where he achieved a third-class degree in the classical tripos . | |
| 684 | biography | 1 | PERSON | a. j. a. morris , in the oxford dictionary of national biography , called him " britain 's first and only radical prime minister " . | |
| 685 | home rule | 1 | RULE | known colloquially as " cb " , campbell-bannerman firmly believed in free trade , irish home rule and the improvement of social conditions , including reduced working hours . | |
| 686 | state interference | 1 | PLACE | another later biographer , john wilson , called campbell-bannerman a moderate social reformer , stating that campbell-bannerman favoured a better deal for the poor and the workers but like gladstone he was opposed to too much state interference . | |
| 687 | lord provost | 1 | PERSON | he served as the lord provost of glasgow from 1840 to 1843 . | |
| 688 | matter | 1 | STATE | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 689 | dissolution | 1 | EVENT | in 1906 , campbell-bannerman created a minor diplomatic incident with the russian government when he responded to tsar nicholas ii 's dissolution of the duma with a speech in which he declared , " the duma is dead ; long live the duma ! " | |
| 690 | stirling burghs | 1 | PERSON | member of parliament in april 1868 , at the age of thirty-one , campbell-bannerman stood as a liberal candidate in a by-election for the stirling burghs constituency , narrowly losing to fellow liberal john ramsay . | |
| 691 | serveth | 1 | UNKNOWN | that serveth not another 's will ; | |
| 692 | reserves | 1 | UNKNOWN | in 1895 , campbell unwittingly caused the fall of rosebery 's ministry , when the earl 's government lost a vote over c.b. 's handling of cordite reserves . | |
| 693 | new liberalism | 1 | PLACE | it was not until campbell-bannerman 's departure that the doctrines of new liberalism came to be implemented . | |
| 694 | pro boer factions | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 695 | conscience | 1 | PERSON | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 696 | legacy statue | 1 | PERSON | legacy statue of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views of contemporaries | |
| 697 | secret | 1 | SERIES | what was the secret of the hold which in these later days he unquestionably had on the admiration and affection of men of all parties and all creeds ? | |
| 698 | sign | 1 | SIGN | on the day of campbell-bannerman 's death the flag of the national liberal club was lowered to half-mast , the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning . | |
| 699 | entente | 1 | UNKNOWN | nonetheless , his premiership saw the entente with russia in 1907 , brought about principally by the foreign secretary , edward grey . | |
| 700 | liberal | 1 | PERSON | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 701 | passing | 1 | PERSON | historian george dangerfield in 1935 concluded that campbell-bannerman 's death " was like the passing of true liberalism . | |
| 702 | rhetoric | 1 | UNKNOWN | one biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . | |
| 703 | edward harold begbie | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman was the subject of several parody novels based on the 1865 lewis carroll novel alice in wonderland , such as caroline lewis 's ( pseudonym for edward harold begbie , j. stafford | |
| 704 | french entente | 1 | PLACE | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 705 | university | 1 | INSTITUTION | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 706 | aspects | 1 | INSTANCE | however , historians have identified a few positive aspects of his tenure , including laying the foundation for a more effective government under asquith . | |
| 707 | flag | 1 | FLAG | on the day of campbell-bannerman 's death the flag of the national liberal club was lowered to half-mast , the blinds were drawn and his portrait was draped in black as a sign of mourning . | |
| 708 | british chancellor | 1 | PERSON | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 709 | clash | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman 's biographer john wilson has described the meeting as " a clash between two fundamentally different philosophies " . | |
| 710 | park district | 1 | PLACE | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 711 | contemporaries | 1 | PERSON | legacy statue of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views of contemporaries | |
| 712 | liberalism | 1 | ACTION | historian george dangerfield in 1935 concluded that campbell-bannerman 's death " was like the passing of true liberalism . | |
| 713 | altars | 1 | PLACE | and now almost the last true worshipper at those large , equivocal altars lay dead " . | |
| 714 | bereavement | 1 | STATE | certainly those who have been associated with him closely for years will feel a deep sense of personal bereavement . | |
| 715 | darkness | 1 | PROPERTY | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 716 | senior | 1 | PERSON | ..he has gone to his rest , and to-day in this house , of which he was the senior and the most honoured member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — | |
| 717 | reginald mckenna | 1 | PERSON | reginald mckenna succeeds birrell at the board of education . | |
| 718 | things | 1 | ACTIVITY | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 719 | salisbury arthur balfour | 1 | PERSON | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 720 | shame | 1 | PERSON | ( " shame . " ) | |
| 721 | george charles beresford | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 722 | brussels sugar convention | 1 | PLACE | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 723 | fear | 1 | EMOTION | following a series of heart attacks , the most serious in november 1907 , he began to fear that he would not be able to survive to the end of his term . | |
| 724 | eye | 1 | PERSON | he was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . | |
| 725 | liberal john ramsay | 1 | PERSON | member of parliament in april 1868 , at the age of thirty-one , campbell-bannerman stood as a liberal candidate in a by-election for the stirling burghs constituency , narrowly losing to fellow liberal john ramsay . | |
| 726 | expenditures | 1 | AMOUNT | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 727 | compensation act | 1 | ACT | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 728 | labour party leader george lansbury | 1 | PERSON | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 729 | labour mp | 1 | PERSON | lord of himself , though not of lands , and , having nothing , yet hath all . robert smillie , the trade unionist and labour mp , said that , after gladstone , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . | |
| 730 | vehmgericht | 1 | UNKNOWN | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 731 | purpose | 1 | PURPOSE | he never put himself forward , yet no one had greater tenacity of purpose . | |
| 732 | wealth | 1 | INSTANCE | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 733 | campbell bannerman the liberals | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 734 | sir william harcourt | 1 | PERSON | rosebery , backed by the liberal leader in the commons , sir william harcourt , refused since campbell-bannerman was viewed as indispensable to the government 's front-bench team in the lower house . | |
| 735 | circumstances | 1 | EVENT | ' the sentiments of the english people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by england on the continent under any circumstances . ' | |
| 736 | robert smillie | 1 | PERSON | lord of himself , though not of lands , and , having nothing , yet hath all . robert smillie , the trade unionist and labour mp , said that , after gladstone , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . | |
| 737 | europe | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 738 | edward marjoribanks | 1 | PERSON | secretary of state for war * john morley - secretary of state for india * edward marjoribanks , 2nd baron tweedmouth - | |
| 739 | worse | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | not long after he became father of the house in 1907 , campbell-bannerman 's health took a turn for the worse . | |
| 740 | west indian sugar producers | 1 | PERSON | the conservative government of arthur balfour had threatened countervailing duties and subsidies of west indian sugar producers as a negotiating tool . | |
| 741 | richard cobden | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman held firmly to the liberal principles of richard cobden and william ewart gladstone . | |
| 742 | foreign secretary | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman saw off both of these issues by offering the positions of chancellor of the exchequer , foreign secretary and secretary of state for war to asquith , grey and haldane respectively , which all three accepted , whilst immediately dissolving parliament and calling a general election . | |
| 743 | prime minister role | 1 | ROLE | he was part of a period of scottish dominance in the prime minister role and he represented scotland 's full integration into the political realm . | |
| 744 | liberal government | 1 | GOVERNMENT | when cardwell was raised to the peerage , campbell-bannerman became the liberal government 's chief spokesman on defence matters in the house of commons . | |
| 745 | fiery majority | 1 | PERSON | the liberal imperialist richard haldane claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old tory , c.b. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . | |
| 746 | independence | 1 | STATE | it means that we abandon our fiscal independence , together with our free-trade ways ; that we subside into the tenth part of a vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed , at what rate per cent . | |
| 747 | english civil war | 1 | EVENT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 748 | lord president | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 749 | excess | 1 | AMOUNT | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 750 | home department | 1 | PERSON | henry campbell-bannerman - prime minister , first lord of the treasury and leader of the house of commons * robert reid , 1st earl loreburn - lord chancellor * robert crewe-milnes , earl of crewe - lord president of the council * lord ripon - lord privy seal and leader of the house of lords * h. h. asquith - chancellor of the exchequer * herbert gladstone - secretary of state for the home department * edward grey - secretary of state for foreign affairs * victor bruce , 9th earl of elgin - | |
| 751 | accounts | 1 | COLLECTION | other historical accounts , however , have portrayed campbell-bannerman as a genuine progressive figure . | |
| 752 | aversion | 1 | POSITION | according to one study , campbell-bannerman 's views " were broadly those of the party 's centre-left : a belief in individual freedom , a desire to help the disadvantaged , an aversion to imperialism and support for irish self-government . " | |
| 753 | air balloons | 1 | PERMISSION | the 1907 conference ultimately restricted only a few new classes of armaments , such as submarine mines and projectiles fired or dropped from hot air balloons , but placed no limitations on naval expenditures . | |
| 754 | george otto trevelyan | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 755 | vanity fair | 1 | PERSON | leader of the liberal party campbell-bannerman caricatured by spy for vanity fair , 1899 on 6 | |
| 756 | arthur balfour leader | 1 | PERSON | february 1899 - 5 december 1905 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil , 3rd marquess of salisbury arthur balfour preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by arthur balfour leader of the liberal party | |
| 757 | another | 1 | UNKNOWN | another later biographer , john wilson , called campbell-bannerman a moderate social reformer , stating that campbell-bannerman favoured a better deal for the poor and the workers but like gladstone he was opposed to too much state interference . | |
| 758 | fraction | 1 | ACT | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 759 | empire | 1 | STATE | campbell-bannerman 's government granted the boer states , the transvaal and the orange river colony , self-government within the british empire through an order in council so as to bypass the house of lords . | |
| 760 | blessing | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman was not informed of these at first but when grey told him about them he gave them his blessing . | |
| 761 | emily hobhouse | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 762 | tariff reform | 1 | AMOUNT | however , it was joseph chamberlain 's proposals for tariff reform in may 1903 that provided the liberals with a great and nationally resonating cause on which to campaign and unify , due to its protectionist nature . | |
| 763 | life | 1 | EVENT | early life | |
| 764 | national reform union | 1 | PLACE | campbell-bannerman caused particular friction within his own party when in a speech to the national reform union in june 1901 and shortly after meeting emily hobhouse , he described the concentration camps set up by the british in the boer war as " methods of barbarism " . | |
| 765 | thought | 1 | UNKNOWN | campbell-bannerman and charlotte were an exceptionally close couple throughout their marriage ; in the words of one historian , they " shared every thought and possible moment " . | |
| 766 | bryce | 1 | PERSON | the radical members of the cabinet such as lord loreburn , lord morley and lord bryce would have opposed such co-operation with the french . | |
| 767 | powers | 1 | POWER | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 768 | irish nationalist party | 1 | PERSON | john redmond , the leader of the irish nationalist party , paid tribute to campbell-bannerman by saying that " we all feel that ireland has lost a brave and considerate friend " . | |
| 769 | civilisation | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 770 | successor h. h. asquith | 1 | PERSON | in an uncharacteristically emotional speech on 27 april , the day of campbell-bannerman 's funeral , his successor h. h. asquith told the house of commons : | |
| 771 | event | 1 | EVENT | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 772 | sphere | 1 | UNKNOWN | ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender in his sympathies , always disposed to despise victories won in any sphere by mere brute force , an almost passionate lover of peace . | |
| 773 | issues | 1 | EVENT | campbell-bannerman saw off both of these issues by offering the positions of chancellor of the exchequer , foreign secretary and secretary of state for war to asquith , grey and haldane respectively , which all three accepted , whilst immediately dissolving parliament and calling a general election . | |
| 774 | statute | 1 | PERSON | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 775 | appointment | 1 | PROCESS | liberal government , 1905-1915 appointment and cabinet sketch of campbell-bannerman the liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in december 1905 when arthur balfour resigned as prime minister , prompting edward vii to invite campbell-bannerman to form a minority government as the first liberal prime minister of the 20th century . | |
| 776 | liberal party campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 777 | progressivism | 1 | BODY | one biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism , but he was not a progressive " . | |
| 778 | stracathro | 1 | UNKNOWN | henry campbell-bannerman was born on 7 september 1836 at kelvinside house in glasgow as henry campbell , the second son and youngest of the six children born to james campbell of stracathro ( 1790-1876 ) and his wife janet bannerman ( 1799-1873 ) . | |
| 779 | predominance | 1 | CONDITION | in essence , he maintained that the predominance of the commons must prevail , without any appeal to the constituencies ( i.e. a further general election ) . | |
| 780 | start | 1 | UNKNOWN | force that would be sent to france in 1914 at the start of the great war with germany . | |
| 781 | world | 1 | PLACE | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 782 | paul raphael montford views | 1 | PERSON | legacy statue of campbell-bannerman in stirling henry campbell-bannerman by paul raphael montford views of contemporaries | |
| 783 | militarism | 1 | BODY | militarism , extravagance , protection are weeds which grow in the same field , and if you want to clear the field for honest cultivation you must root them all out . | |
| 784 | cartoon | 1 | PLAN | punch cartoon dated 19 february 1908 , making fun of the relationship between house of commons ( henry campbell-bannerman ) and house of lords ( lord lansdowne ) . | |
| 785 | labour movement | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the labour movement , he was not a socialist . | |
| 786 | lands | 1 | LAND | lord of himself , though not of lands , and , having nothing , yet hath all . robert smillie , the trade unionist and labour mp , said that , after gladstone , campbell-bannerman was the greatest man he had ever met . | |
| 787 | foreign affairs | 1 | PERSON | foreign affairs | |
| 788 | party supporters | 1 | PERSON | bills of 1906 and 1907 were rejected by both party supporters and unionist peers . | |
| 789 | procedure | 1 | PROCEDURE | sharp mckechnie characterised this as an " untried one-chambered legislature " and stated that " it could only be carried out by some revolutionary procedure . " | |
| 790 | truest friends | 1 | PERSON | ireland has certainly lost one of her truest friends , and what is true of ireland is true of every section of the community of this empire which has a fight to maintain against powerful foes . | |
| 791 | pure | 1 | UNKNOWN | cb said that ' sunshine must be allowed to stream in , the water and the food must be kept pure and unadulterated , the streets light and clean ' . | |
| 792 | ports | 1 | ESTATE | depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers , privileges , injustices , and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles . | |
| 793 | right | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 794 | compensation | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 795 | world sugar prices | 1 | AMOUNT | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 796 | landslide | 1 | CONCLUSION | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 797 | henry bannerman | 1 | PERSON | in 1871 , henry campbell became henry campbell-bannerman , the addition of the surname bannerman being a requirement of the will of his uncle , henry bannerman , from whom in that year he had inherited the estate of hunton lodge ( now hunton court ) in hunton , kent . | |
| 798 | gcb | 1 | PERSON | the right honourable sir henry campbell-bannerman gcb portrait by george charles beresford , 1902 prime minister of the united kingdom | |
| 799 | debates | 1 | STATE | he was appointed to the same position from 1880 to 1882 in gladstone 's second government , and after serving as parliamentary and financial secretary to the admiralty between 1882 and 1884 , campbell-bannerman was promoted to the cabinet as chief secretary for ireland in 1884 , an important role with ongoing home rule debates . | |
| 800 | theories | 1 | COGNITIVE STATE | he was said to have commented on the futility of ' our wealth , and learning and the fine flower of our civilisation and our constitution and our political theories ' calling them ' but dust and ashes ' if the people who labour , the workers on whom ' the whole social fabric is maintained ' , continued to ' live and die in darkness and misery ' in what he called ' the recesses of our great cities ' . | |
| 801 | veto | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman had no apparent plan to circumvent the lords ' veto and did little to stimulate the social reform program . | |
| 802 | deities | 1 | DEITY | henry had believed in peace , retrenchment , and reform , those amiable deities who presided so complacently over large portions of the victorian era... | |
| 803 | london historians | 1 | PLACE | blue plaque at 6 grosvenor place , london historians agree that in his 28 months as prime minister , campbell-bannerman was relatively undistinguished with few significant reforms enacted . | |
| 804 | reality | 1 | PERSON | his effort was generally considered a failure ; in the words of historian barbara tuchman , " the argument was narrow steering between the rocks of conscience and the shoals of political reality and it pleased nobody . " | |
| 805 | baron tweedmouth | 1 | UNKNOWN | secretary of state for war * john morley - secretary of state for india * edward marjoribanks , 2nd baron tweedmouth - | |
| 806 | affairs | 1 | PERSON | foreign affairs | |
| 807 | nations | 1 | INSTANCE | the liberal party was later able to unify over its opposition to the education act 1902 and the brussels sugar convention of 1902 , in which britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties . | |
| 808 | splits | 1 | VALUE | helped by the lib-lab pact that he had negotiated , the splits in the conservatives over free trade and the positive election campaign that he fought , the liberals won by a landslide , gaining 216 seats . | |
| 809 | starvation | 1 | DEFICIENCY | as far back as 1903 , campbell-bannerman had spoken of the intention of the liberal party to do something about the " twelve million people in england were living on the verge of starvation , " during the 1930s , one-time labour party leader george lansbury wrote admiringly of campbell-bannerman , describing him as a man who " believed in peace and was not afraid of the word socialism , and did believe unemployment was a national problem and the unemployed the care of the state . " | |
| 810 | arms race | 1 | RACE | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 811 | statesmanship | 1 | SKILL | the former boer general , jan smuts , wrote to david lloyd george in 1919 : " my experience in south africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity , and your and campbell-bannerman 's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent british statesmanship " . | |
| 812 | comedies | 1 | LIGHT | the defeat of the relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in british political history " . | |
| 813 | aberdeen universities | 1 | PERSON | he served as the conservative member of parliament for glasgow and aberdeen universities from 1880 to 1906 . | |
| 814 | transaction | 1 | QUANTITY | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 815 | creeds | 1 | EVENT | what was the secret of the hold which in these later days he unquestionably had on the admiration and affection of men of all parties and all creeds ? | |
| 816 | cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 817 | alternative | 1 | WORD | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 818 | lancaster | 1 | PLACE | fowler - chancellor of the duchy of lancaster * john sinclair - | |
| 819 | né campbell | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 820 | clara | 1 | PERSON | ransome , and michael henry temple ) clara in blunderland ( 1902 ) and lost in blunderland ( 1903 ) . | |
| 821 | cynical | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was the least cynical of mankind , but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation . | |
| 822 | hero | 1 | PERSON | r. b . mccallum stated that " campbell-bannerman was of pure gladstonian vintage and a hero to the radicals " . | |
| 823 | a. j. a. morris | 1 | PERSON | a. j. a. morris , in the oxford dictionary of national biography , called him " britain 's first and only radical prime minister " . | |
| 824 | co operation | 1 | FORCE | ||
| 825 | series | 1 | SERIES | following a series of heart attacks , the most serious in november 1907 , he began to fear that he would not be able to survive to the end of his term . | |
| 826 | stirling henry campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 827 | economy | 1 | STUDY | ' ah ' said bannerman ' but that is for economy ! '... | |
| 828 | wake | 1 | PLACE | the defeat of the relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in british political history " . | |
| 829 | relugas conspirators | 1 | PERSON | the defeat of the relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in british political history " . | |
| 830 | landslide victory | 1 | PERSON | following a general-election defeat in 1900 , campbell-bannerman went on to lead the liberal party to a landslide victory over the conservative party at the 1906 general election - the last election in which the liberals gained an overall majority in the house of commons . | |
| 831 | truce | 1 | AGREEMENT | ..he has gone to his rest , and to-day in this house , of which he was the senior and the most honoured member , we may call a truce in the strife of parties , while we remember together our common loss , and pay our united homage to a gracious and cherished memory — | |
| 832 | f. w. hirst | 1 | PERSON | the liberal journalist and friend of campbell-bannerman , f. w. hirst , claimed that campbell-bannerman " had not a ghost of a notion that the french entente was being converted into a...return to the old balance of power which had involved great britain in so many wars on the continent . | |
| 833 | title | 1 | ESTATE | whereas in the past it had never been used formally , campbell-bannerman was the first first lord of the treasury to be given official use of the title " prime minister " , a standard that continues to the present day . | |
| 834 | june prime minister william ewart gladstone | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 835 | accident | 1 | PERSON | the workmen 's compensation act 1906 gave some workers the right against their employer to a certain amount of compensation if they suffered an accident at work . | |
| 836 | partnership | 1 | PERIOD | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . | |
| 837 | summer | 1 | PERSON | campbell-bannerman spoke french , german and italian fluently , and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in europe , usually in france and at the spa town of marienbad in bohemia . | |
| 838 | deal | 1 | QUANTITY | another later biographer , john wilson , called campbell-bannerman a moderate social reformer , stating that campbell-bannerman favoured a better deal for the poor and the workers but like gladstone he was opposed to too much state interference . | |
| 839 | thirty one | 1 | UNKNOWN | ||
| 840 | liberty | 1 | PERSON | we are satisfied that it is right because it gives the freest play to individual energy and initiative and character and the largest liberty both to producer and consumer . | |
| 841 | employees | 1 | PERSON | he was also commissioned as a lieutenant into the 53rd lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps , which was recruited from employees of the firm , and in 1867 was promoted to captain . | |
| 842 | imperialist | 1 | PERSON | the boer war of 1899 split the liberal party into imperialist and pro-boer factions , with cb strongly critical of the use of concentration camps as ' methods of barbarism ' . | |
| 843 | h. h. asquith secretary | 1 | PERSON | february 1899 - 22 april 1908 preceded by william vernon harcourt succeeded by h. h. asquith secretary of state for war in office 18 | |
| 844 | experiments | 1 | PERIOD | should be regarded as the last liberal government of the old type , while under his successor , h. h. asquith , new experiments in social policy were undertaken which were only doubtfully compatible with the older liberal principles " . | |
| 845 | compulsory | 1 | UNKNOWN | the government of campbell-bannerman allowed local authorities to provide free school meals ( though this was not compulsory ) and also strengthened the power of the trade unions with their trade disputes act 1906 . | |
| 846 | edward cardwell | 1 | PERSON | financial secretary to the war office in gladstone 's first government in november 1871 , serving in this position until 1874 under edward cardwell , the secretary of state for war . | |
| 847 | manchester east seat | 1 | PERSON | the conservatives saw their number of seats more than halve , and arthur balfour , now as leader of the opposition , lost his manchester east seat to the liberals . | |
| 848 | peace movement | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | in march 1907 , he published " the hague conference and the limitation of armaments " , an article in which he cited the growing popular and moral authority of the peace movement as reasons to freeze the status quo in the naval arms race between germany and britain . | |
| 849 | discussions | 1 | EVENT | he failed to supervise grey 's foreign policy , he failed to consult the full cabinet before initiating momentous discussions on defense interests with the french in 1906 . | |
| 850 | bride | 1 | PERSON | in 1860 , campbell-bannerman married sarah charlotte bruce , and he and his new bride set up house at 6 clairmont gardens in the park district of the west end of glasgow . | |
| 851 | general louis botha | 1 | PERSON | the first south african prime minister , general louis botha , believed that " campbell-bannerman 's act had redressed the balance of the anglo-boer war , or had , at any rate , given full power to the south africans themselves to redress it " . | |
| 852 | culture | 1 | STUDY | campbell-bannerman had a deep appreciation for french culture , and particularly enjoyed the novels of anatole france . | |
| 853 | governments | 1 | GOVERNMENT | in gladstone 's third and fourth governments , in 1886 and 1892 to 1894 respectively , as well as the earl of rosebery 's government from 1894 to 1895 , campbell-bannerman served as the secretary of state for war . | |
| 854 | ordinances | 1 | BODY | in the matter of house of lords reforms , which was to become the dominant issue of the 1910 elections , campbell-bannerman proposed on 26 june 1907 that the lords enjoy purely ornamental ancient privileges , but be deprived of all real legislative power ; and that the commons after tolerating for a few months the futile criticisms of the lords would be empowered by mere lapse of a brief fraction of a year to ignore the very existence of a second chamber , and to proceed to pass their statute on their own authority , like the ordinances of the long parliament during the english civil war . | |
| 855 | office october | 1 | PERIOD | ||
| 856 | ingram | 1 | PERSON | after graduating , he joined the family firm of j. & w. campbell & co. , based in glasgow 's ingram | |
| 857 | righteousness | 1 | PERSON | he met both good and evil fortune with the same unclouded brow , the same unruffled temper , the same unshakable confidence in the justice and righteousness of his cause. | |
| 858 | labour representation committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | in 1903 , the liberal party 's chief whip herbert gladstone negotiated a pact with ramsay macdonald of the labour representation committee to withdraw liberal candidates to help lrc candidates in certain seats , in return for lrc withdrawal in other seats to help liberal candidates . | |
| 859 | factories | 1 | EVENT | in his election address , campbell-bannerman spoke in favour of reforming the poor law , reducing unemployment and improving working conditions in sweated factories . | |
| 860 | army clothing department | 1 | PERSON | therefore , campbell-bannerman extended the eight-hour day to the army clothing department . | |
| 861 | bath | 1 | PLACE | this earned campbell-bannerman a knighthood in the form of a knight grand cross of the order of the bath ( gcb ) in rosebery 's 1895 prime minister 's resignation honours . | |
| 862 | socialist | 1 | PERSON | despite this comment , and his sympathies with many elements of the labour movement , he was not a socialist . | |
| 863 | woolwich arsenal munitions factory | 1 | EVENT | during his time in the war office , he introduced an experimental eight-hour day for the workers at the woolwich arsenal munitions factory . | |
| 864 | brute force | 1 | FORCE | ...he was singularly sensitive to human suffering and wrongdoing , delicate and even tender in his sympathies , always disposed to despise victories won in any sphere by mere brute force , an almost passionate lover of peace . | |
| 865 | number | 1 | NUMBER | the conservatives saw their number of seats more than halve , and arthur balfour , now as leader of the opposition , lost his manchester east seat to the liberals . | |
| 866 | troops | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | ' the sentiments of the english people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by england on the continent under any circumstances . ' | |
| 867 | imperial conference campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 868 | tariff | 1 | PERSON | we are to countervail it , how much is to be put on for the bounty , and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff ; and this being the established order of things , the british chancellor of the exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention , in which the britisher is only one out of ten , and the house of commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . | |
| 869 | conference | 1 | PERSON | imperial conference campbell-bannerman 's first speech as prime minister endorsed the intent of the hague convention of 1907 to limit armaments . | |
| 870 | deputation | 1 | UNKNOWN | asquith , many far-reaching reforms were implemented , but campbell-bannerman himself had , in 1906 , received a deputation from representatives of 25 women 's suffragist groups ( representing 1,000 women ) though he said that his cabinet would object to this change . | |
| 871 | england resting place meigle parish church | 1 | PERSON | in office 23 october 1884 - 25 june 1885 prime minister william ewart gladstone preceded by george otto trevelyan succeeded by william hart dyke additional positions personal details born henry campbell 7 september 1836 kelvinside house , glasgow , scotland died 22 april 1908( 1908-04-22 ) ( aged 71 ) 10 downing street , london , england resting place meigle parish church , perthshire political party liberal spouse charlotte bruce ( m. 1860 ; died 1906 ) education university of glasgow trinity college , cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature in ink sir henry campbell-bannerman ( né campbell ; 7 september 1836 - 22 april 1908 ) was a british statesman and liberal party politician who was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the liberal party from 1899 to 1908 . | |
| 872 | trade disputes act | 1 | ACT | the government of campbell-bannerman allowed local authorities to provide free school meals ( though this was not compulsory ) and also strengthened the power of the trade unions with their trade disputes act 1906 . | |
| 873 | importation | 1 | PERSON | the convention 's intent was to lead to the gradual phasing out of export bounties , and britain would then forbid the importation of subsidised sugar . | |
| 874 | kind | 1 | INSTANCE | then said that he thought the english ought to have some kind of military service , at which bannerman nearly fainted . . . 'it comes to this ' said clemenceau 'in the event of your supporting us against germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our war offices and to land 110,000 men on the coast while italy marches with us in the ranks ? ' | |
| 875 | birrell | 1 | PERSON | augustine birrell - president of the board of education * | |
| 876 | standard | 1 | ARTIFACT | whereas in the past it had never been used formally , campbell-bannerman was the first first lord of the treasury to be given official use of the title " prime minister " , a standard that continues to the present day . | |
| 877 | tory | 1 | PERSON | the liberal imperialist richard haldane claimed that campbell-bannerman 's government " was if anything , too conservative...with that dear old tory , c.b. , at the head of it , determined to do as little as a fiery majority will allow him " . | |
| 878 | offenders | 1 | PERSON | the probation of offenders act 1907 was passed , which established supervision within the community for young offenders as an alternative to prison . | |
| 879 | clothing trade | 1 | PERSON | james campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in glasgow , before in 1817 going into partnership with his brother , william campbell , to found j.& w. campbell & co. , a warehousing , general wholesale and retail drapery business . |
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a. j. a a. j. a. morris aberdeen universities accident addition affairs aim apostle appeal appreciation april monarch edward vii armour army clothing department arthur balfour arthur balfour leader arthur peel asquith assurance attachment augustine birrell authority balfour bannerman barbara tuchman belmont castle biographer biographer john wilson biography birrell blessing blinds board boer general boers bolton boon bride british chancellor british expeditionary bronze bust brother brow bryce cabinet cabinets cambridge cambridge profession merchant signature cursive signature campbell campbell bannerman campbell bannerman the liberals cardwell caroline lewis chamberlain chancellor charles wynn carington chief secretary chief whip herbert gladstone children church clairmont gardens clara clash clemenceau clothing trade colleagues commander in chief conference conscience conservative member constituencies constituency constitution contemporaries convention tariff countrymen courage course cousin crewe david lloyd george december monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister robert cecil defiant dreams duke duma earl earl carrington earl loreburn edward cardwell edward grey edward harold begbie edward marjoribanks edward stanhope edward vii elgin emily hobhouse employees employer england resting place meigle parish church english heritage legacy id envy eye f. w. hirst faith fall father favour fellows fiery majority financial secretary firm believer first commissioner first lord flower foreign affairs foreign secretary fortune fowler freedom friedrich hayek friend friends fun gathorne gathorne hardy gcb general louis botha george charles beresford george otto trevelyan georges clemenceau gladstone gladstonian liberal grey h. h. asquith h. h. asquith leader h. h. asquith secretary haldane happy henry henry bannerman henry campbell henry campbell bannerman henry petty fitzmaurice herbert gladstone hero historian george dangerfield historians blue plaque home department honest hunton hunton court hunton lodge idealist imperial conference campbell bannerman imperialist importation ingram interview irish nationalist party irish secretary j. stafford james alexander campbell james bryce james campbell jan smuts january grey john burns john morley john redmond john sinclair john wilson joseph chamberlain journalist july prime minister william ewart gladstone june prime minister william ewart gladstone june prime minister william ewart gladstone archibald primrose knight grand cross knighthood labour labour leaders labour mp labour party leader george lansbury land reform landlords landslide victory lansdowne lapse law leader legacy statue legislation lewis carroll novel alice lewis harcourt liberal liberal imperialist richard haldane liberal john ramsay liberal leader liberal member liberal party campbell bannerman liberal party politician liberals liberty lieutenant life henry campbell bannerman local government board lord bryce lord chancellor lord lansdowne lord loreburn lord morley lord president lord privy seal lord provost lord ripon lord salisbury lords lords reforms loss man manchester east seat mankind marquess mccallum meigle meigle parish church member members men michael henry temple mines nave wall navy nobody nothing né campbell offenders orange river colony oxford dictionary party liberal spouse charlotte bruce party man party supporters passing paul raphael montford paul raphael montford views peers person plaque portrait president principles pro boer factions queen ramsay ramsay macdonald reality reformer reginald mckenna relugas conspirators requirement resentments richard cobden richard haldane right right honourable sir henry campbell bannerman gcb portrait righteousness robert crewe milnes robert reid robert smillie rosebery salisbury arthur balfour sarah charlotte bruce school meals second chamber secretary senior shame sir sir henry campbell bannerman sir william harcourt socialist son spokesman st mary statesman statute stirling burghs stirling burghs constituency stirling henry campbell bannerman stone stone plaque stunning victory successor successor h. h. asquith summer sunshine surname surname bannerman sydney buxton tariff tender tory trade trade unionist trade unions truest friends tsar nicholas ii uncle unemployment unionist politician lord milner vanity fair verge veto victor bruce views violet cecil virtue voting w. campbell wall west indian sugar producers westminster abbey wife wife janet bannerman william campbell william ewart gladstone william henry smith chief secretary william sharp mckechnie william vernon harcourt women worshipper |
| EVENT |
admiration anglo boer war aunt boer war centre left character circumstances comment competence creeds damages death departure desire detail discussions dissolution dominance eaters english english civil war event factories great war heart attacks hope incident integration intention issue issues life novels opposition parody novels peace play plaything probation problem problems progress relative representatives resignation retrenchment rocks sentiments south african war staff talks subject sympathies sympathy task team temperament touch truth war wars woolwich arsenal munitions factory |
| PLACE |
aftermath altars anatole france bath boer states bohemia britain brussels sugar convention charlotte commons country doctrines england europe france french french entente gennings park germany glasgow constituency great britain grosvenor place hague conference hague convention half mast historian historians home house india ireland italy marches kelvinside house kent lanarkshire rifle volunteer corps lancaster london london historians marienbad national reform union new liberalism office park district perthshire places residence russia scotland south africa south africans sovereignty state interference street town union united kingdom wake war office west end wonderland world |
| PERIOD |
april august century day days december experiments february hours january june march may moment months november october office december office february office october partnership past period september time weeks year years |
| ACT |
act bands censure compensation act contact countervailing duties criticisms defeat education act fraction general election defeat judgment learning marriage offenders act pass planning protection retirement supervision trade disputes act vote warehousing |
| STATE |
barbarism bereavement british empire business debates defence matters empire essence gradual humours independence matter philosophies plight rest state temper welfare |
| ABSTRACT ENTITY |
argument compensation failure forward futility intent lunacy memorial memory proposals reasoning reasons safeguards seats triumph weeds worse |
| AMOUNT |
amount candidate candidates danger excess exchequer expenditure expenditures extravagance handling reform reforms strife tariff reform turn world sugar prices |
| FORCE |
admiralty armaments british armed forces brute force co operation concentration camps consensus conservative party friction heart liberal party parties party |
| INSTITUTION |
cobden club family firm firm glasgow glasgow trinity college high school ministry national liberal club service trinity college university education university |
| INSTANCE |
aspects commission history kind nations page penalties pensions record wealth |
| HUMAN GROUP |
army council glasgow town council labour movement labour representation committee long parliament parliament peace movement people troops |
| PROPERTY |
age community darkness health justice majority uk parliamentary majority |
| PROCESS |
appointment education sense speaker tenacity third class degree unity |
| CONDITION |
care conditions misery predominance prosperity victories |
| GROUP |
couple foundation partner soldiers suffragist groups word socialism |
| POSITION |
aversion misgivings position positions premiership streets |
| POWER |
by election election elections injustices power powers |
| ESTATE |
estate ports protection root section stracathro estate title |
| ACTION |
effort funeral liberalism motion politics strike action |
| AGREEMENT |
hold improvement lib lab pact pact truce |
| STUDY |
agriculture cultivation culture economy study |
| RESULT |
bounty date export bounties result results |
| QUANTITY |
cent deal fault transaction tribute |
| GOVERNMENT |
government governments liberal government minority government self government |
| VALUE |
continent future limitation limitations splits |
| RANK |
methods profile ranks recesses |
| FIGURE |
figure mind scheme schemes |
| ACTIVITY |
ironies meeting things work |
| ARTIFACT |
capacity convention origin standard |
| FORM |
form return taxes usage |
| LAND |
field land lands |
| BODY |
militarism ordinances progressivism |
| DOCUMENT |
bills education bills major bills |
| GARMENT |
balance order orders |
| HUMAN ROLE |
minister prime minister south african prime minister |
| SITUATION |
situation tragedy vintage |
| PLAN |
cartoon plan plans |
| SERIES |
election campaign secret series |
| EMOTION |
affection confidence fear |
| SET |
cities fighter support |
| RULE |
home rule irish home rule policy |
| FUNCTION |
monopolies war offices |
| ROLE |
prime minister role role |
| TERM |
term treasury |
| LIGHT |
comedies platform |
| NAME |
name pseudonym |
| INFORMATION |
background information |
| WORD |
alternative words |
| RESOURCE |
radicals spy |
| COLLECTION |
accounts peerage |
| STATUS |
status tenure |
| OCCURRENCE |
fight production |
| QUALITY |
democracy magnanimity |
| MATERIAL |
fabric masses |
| EFFECT |
business experience experience |
| PORTION |
portions shoals |
| FOOD |
food marble tablet |
| NUMBER |
number realm |
| SKILL |
skill statesmanship |
| SOFTWARE |
prison |
| TENDENCY |
optimist |
| USE |
use |
| GHOST |
ghost |
| CAUSE |
causes |
| ROOM |
robes |
| COGNITIVE STATE |
theories |
| FLAG |
flag |
| PACE |
pace |
| ELEMENT |
elements |
| TRUST |
belief |
| WATER |
water |
| CONCLUSION |
landslide |
| RATE |
rate |
| SPEECH |
speech |
| ANYTHING |
anything |
| PROJECTILE |
projectiles |
| RELATIONSHIP |
relationship |
| MEASURE |
measures |
| TOOL |
tool |
| ENTITY |
existence |
| ACQUISITION |
housing |
| NATURE |
nature |
| ASSET |
homage |
| BUILDING |
legislature |
| PRIVILEGE |
privileges |
| SUBSTANCE |
notion |
| PURPOSE |
purpose |
| RACE |
arms race |
| PROCEDURE |
procedure |
| DUST |
dust |
| PROGRAM |
reform program |
| PIECE |
churchyard |
| COMMITMENT |
binding commitment |
| DEITY |
deities |
| ARTICLE |
article |
| SIGN |
sign |
| ENERGY |
energy |
| SUGAR |
sugar |
| SPEECH ACT |
cabinet sketch |
| MONEY |
subsidies |
| HEAD |
head |
| ARRANGEMENT |
arrangements |
| PERMISSION |
air balloons |
| DEFICIENCY |
starvation |