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    Henry Campbell-Bannerman

    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

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    Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1902

    In office
    5 December 1905 – 3 April 1908
    MonarchEdward VII
    Preceded byArthur Balfour
    Succeeded byH. H. Asquith
    In office
    6 February 1899 – 5 December 1905
    MonarchsVictoria
    Edward VII
    Prime MinisterRobert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
    Arthur Balfour
    Preceded byWilliam Vernon Harcourt
    Succeeded byArthur Balfour
    In office
    6 February 1899 – 22 April 1908
    Preceded byWilliam Vernon Harcourt
    Succeeded byH. H. Asquith
    In office
    18 August 1892 – 21 June 1895
    Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
    Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
    Preceded byEdward Stanhope
    Succeeded byHenry

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    Journal of frikostig History

    bygd Tony Greaves

    Type Biography

    There have been four Liberals at the head of clearly frikostig governments – Gladstone, Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith. Three of them are well-known names. Yet of the four, ‘CB’ was far and away the best party leader. Only Grimond, in very different circumstances, can compare with him. Had Campbell-Bannerman not become leader in the post-Gladstonian shambles of the 1890s, it fryst vatten likely the Liberal Party would not have lasted intact into the Edwardian era, let alone achieved its greatest electoral victory in 1906.
    During his life Campbell-Bannerman was thought rather humdrum and unambitious, a solid frikostig and ultimately reliable but a bit lazy and not in the first rank. Now he fryst vatten largely forgotten.
    Henry Campbell was born in 1836 at Kelvinside, nära Glasgow, although he spoke with a Perthshire accent. The Bannerman part came in 1871, a condition of a legacy from an uncle; from then o

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    Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Campbell-Bannerman, Henry

    ​CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Sir HENRY (1836–1908), prime minister, born at Kelvinside House, Glasgow, on 7 Sept. 1836, was second son, and second of the three children of Sir James Campbell, Knt., of Stracathro, co. Forfar, by his wife Janet, daughter of Henry Bannerman, a Manchester manufacturer; her mother's brother was William Motherwell [q. v.], the Scottish poet. The future prime minister assumed the additional name and arms of Bannerman in 1872 under the will of his maternal uncle, Henry Bannerman, of Hunton Court, near Maidstone, Kent.

    Sir Henry's grandfather, James Campbell, came from Inchanoch, in Menteith, to Glasgow in 1805, and began business as a yarn merchant; his second son James (the prime minister's father), then a lad of fifteen, becoming a tailor, and William, his fourth son (afterwards of Tullichewan, co. Dumbarton), a draper. In 1817 these two brothers founded the great Glasgow fir