biography
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Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
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| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1908)
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| biography:
| British statesman and prime minister (1905–8), born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow and Cambridge, became a Liberal MP (1868), was chief secretary for Ireland (1884), war secretary (1886, 1892–5), Liberal leader (1899), and prime minister. A ‘pro-Boer’, he granted the ex-republics responsible government, and his popularity united the Liberal Party. He supported the Lib–Lab pact of 1903, which played a part in the Liberal landslide of 1906. |
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