Bonar Law

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Andrew Bonar Law (; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. He was the first prime minister born outside of Britain or Ireland, and the shortest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now a Canadian province). He was of Scottish and Ulster Scots descent and moved to Scotland in 1870. He left school aged sixteen to work in the iron industry, becoming a wealthy man by the age of thirty. He entered the House of Commons at the 1900 general election at age 42, relatively late in life for a front-rank politician; he was made a junior minister, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, in 1902. Law joined the Shadow Cabinet in opposition after the 1906 general election. In 1911, he was appointed a Privy Councillor, before standing for the vacant party leadership. Despite never having served in the Cabinet and trailing third after...

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