Bonar Law

The Richt Honourable Andrew Bonar Law
Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923
Monarch	George V
Precedit bi	David Lloyd George
Succeedit bi	Stanley Baldwin
Leader o the Hoose o Commons
In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923
Precedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Succeedit bi	Stanley Baldwin
In office 10 December 1916 – 23 Mairch 1921
Prime Meenister	David Lloyd George
Precedit bi	Herbert Henry Asquith
Succeedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Leader o the Conservative Pairty
In office 23 October 1922 – 22 Mey 1923
Precedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Succeedit bi	Stanley Baldwin
In office 13 November 1911 – 21 Mairch 1921
Precedit bi	Arthur Balfour
Succeedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Laird Privy Seal
In office 10 Januar 1919 – 1 Aprile 1921
Prime Meenister	David Lloyd George
Precedit bi	The Earl o Crawford
Succeedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Chancellor o the Exchequer
In office 10 December 1916 – 10 Januar 1919
Prime Meenister	David Lloyd George
Precedit bi	Reginald McKenna
Succeedit bi	Austen Chamberlain
Secretar o State for the Colonies
In office 25 Mey 1915 – 10 December 1916
Prime Meenister	Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George
Precedit bi	The Viscoont Harcourt
Succeedit bi	The Viscoont Long
Leader o the Opposeetion
In office 13 November 1911 – 25 Mey 1915
Monarch	George V
Prime Meenister	Herbert Henry Asquith
Precedit bi	Arthur Balfour
Succeedit bi	Sir Edward Carson
Pairlamentar Secretar tae the Buird o Trade
In office 11 Julie 1902 – 5 December 1905
Prime Meenister	Arthur Balfour
Precedit bi	The Earl o Dudley
Succeedit bi	Hudson Kearley
Member o Pairlament for Glesga Central
In office 15 December 1918 – 30 October 1923
Precedit bi	John Mackintosh MacLeod
Succeedit bi	William Alexander
Member o Pairlament for Bootle
In office 28 Mairch 1911 – 15 December 1918
Precedit bi	Thomas Myles Sandys
Succeedit bi	Thomas Royden
Member o Pairlament for Dulwich
In office 16 Mey 1906 – 20 December 1910
Precedit bi	Frederick Rutherfoord Harris
Succeedit bi	Sir Frederick Hall
Member o Pairlament for Glesga Blackfriars
In office 25 October 1900 – 13 Januar 1906
Precedit bi	Andrew Dryburgh Provand
Succeedit bi	George Nicoll Barnes
Personal details
Born	16 September 1858(1858-09-16) Kingston, Colony o New Brunswick (nou pairt o Canadae)
Dee'd	30 October 1923(1923-10-30) (aged 65) Kensington, Unitit Kinrick
Restin place	Wastmeenster Abbey
Naitionality	Breetish
Poleetical pairty	Conservative
Spoose(s)	Annie Pitcairn Robley
Bairns	James Isabel Charles Harrington Richard Catherine
Profession	Airn merchant
Religion	Free Kirk o Scotland
Signatur
a. ^ Office vacant frae 25 Mey 1915 to 19 October 1915.

Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923), commonly cried Bonar Law wis a British Conservative Pairty statesman an Prime Meenister.

Law wis born in the British colony o New Brunswick (nou a Canadian province), the first British prime meenister tae be born ootwi the British Isles. He wis o Scots an Ulster Scots strynd an flittit tae Scotland in 1870. He left schuil aged saxteen tae wirk in the airn industry, becomin a walthie man bi the age o thirty. He entered the Hoose o Commons at the 1900 general election, relatively late in life for a front-rank politeecian, an wis made a junior meenister, Pairlamentar Secretar tae the Buird o Tred, in 1902. Law jynt the Shaidae Cabinet in opposeetion efter the 1906 general election. In 1911, he wis appyntit a Privy Cooncillor, an stuid for the vacant pairty leadership. Despite niver haein served in the Cabinet, an despite trailin third ahint Walter Long an Austen Chamberlain, Law becam leader whan the twa front-rinners widrew raither nor risk a draw splittin the pairty.

As Leader o the Conservative Pairty an Leader o the Opposeetion, Law focused his attentions in favour o tariff reform an against Erse Hame Rule. His campaignin helped turn Leeberal attempts tae pass the Third Home Rule Bill intae a three-year struggle eventually haultit bi the start o the First Warld War, wi muckle argiement ower the status o the sax coonties in Ulster that wad later become Northren Ireland, fower o that war predominantly Protestant.

Law first held Cabinet office as Secretar o State for the Colonies in Asquith's Coaleetion Govrenment (Mey 1915 – December 1916). Upon Asquith's faw frae pouer he declined tae form a govrenment, insteid servin as Chancellor o the Exchequer in David Lloyd George's Coaleetion Government. He resigned on grunds o ill heal in early-1921. In October 1922, wi Lloyd George's Coaleetion haein become unpopular wi the Conservatives, he wrate an anonymous letter tae the press giein anerly lew-wairm support tae the Govrenment's actions ower Chanak. Efter Conservative MPs votit tae end the Coaleetion, he again becam Pairty Leader an, this time, Prime Meenister. Bonar Law wan a clear majority at the 1922 general election, an his brief premiership saw negotiation wi the Unitit States ower Breetain's war loans. Seriously ill wi cancer o the thrapple, Law demittit in Mey 1923, an dee'd later that year. He wis the shortest-servin Prime Meenister o the twentiet century (211 days in office), an is whiles cried "The Unkent Prime Meenister".