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Andrew Bonar Law fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1910-1923.

Reference:

R4630-0-X-E, MG27-IIA1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103097

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Andrew Bonar Law fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1910-1923.

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence including approximately fifty letters with Sir Robert Borden and others regarding matters of interest to Canada. Half of the correspondence is with Borden, the remainder with Asquith, Balfour, Chamberlain, Lansdowne, Long, and others, concerning the Borden government, naval policy, visits of Borden to the United Kingdom, Imperial preference, wartime conferences, dominion status, and other such subjects. Also including a descriptive list.

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Law, Andrew Bonar, 1858-1923
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Correspondent: Borden, Robert Laird, Sir, 1854-1937

Correspondent: Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquis of, 1845-1927
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Law, Andrew Bonar, 1858-1923 : Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Andrew Bonar Law, born in 1858 in New Brunswick, received his education in Canada. He was a Conservative member of the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1900-1923, and served as parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, 1902-1905, leader of the Unionist Party, 1911-1921, 1922-1923, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1915-1916, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, 1916-1919, Lord Privy Seal and leader of the House of Commons, 1919-1921, and Prime Minister, 1922-1923.

See also: Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, volume II, 1978.

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General note:

Received in 1958 from Lord Beaverbrook; copied from several files in the Bonar Law papers.
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Commonwealth of Nations

Canada 1911-1921

Politicians - Great Britain - Correspondence, [1910-1923]

Sea-power, [1910-1923]

Visits of state - Canada, [1910-1923]

Visits of state - Great Britain, [1910-1923]

Great Britain - Politics and government, 1910-1923

Prime ministers - Great Britain - Correspondence, 1910-1923

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain

Great Britain - Foreign relations

World War, 1914-1918 Canada
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Private

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MG27-IIA1
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