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    Reginald McKenna (6 July 1863 – 6 September 1943) was a British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was...
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    of Westminster, London. It was built in 1911 as a private house for Reginald McKenna, a politician and later Chairman of the Midland Bank. The architect...
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    ensure funding for their reforms, Lloyd George and Churchill denounced Reginald McKenna's policy of naval expansion, refusing to believe war with Germany was...
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    prohibitively expensive. He was one of the small group, that included Reginald McKenna, who believed in sound public finances;[citation needed] they had witnessed...
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    languages into English, a.o. Louis Couperus, whom McKenna befriended in 1921. His uncle was Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer under H. H. Asquith...
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  • the McKennas lies in the Truagh, County Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland, where they were "The Lords of Truagh". [citation needed] In Munster_Irish, McKenna is...
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    after the declaration of the First World War, the Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna, announced that "within the last twenty-four hours no fewer than twenty-one...
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    military expenditure. Lloyd George strongly supported this, writing to Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, of "the emphatic pledges given by all...
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    October 1911 – Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds...
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    that Simon had organised "a conclave of malcontents" (Lloyd George, Reginald McKenna, Samuel, Charles Hobhouse and Beauchamp). He wrote to Asquith that...
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    Germany, and that nation moving ahead with its own dreadnoughts, led Reginald McKenna, when Asquith appointed him First Lord of the Admiralty in 1908, to...
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    George Goschen The Earl of Selborne The Earl Cawdor The Lord Tweedmouth Reginald McKenna Winston Churchill Arthur Balfour Sir Edward Carson Sir Eric Geddes...
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  • Fourth Sea Lord George Lambert, Civil Lord 16 April 1908: Commission Reginald McKenna, First Lord Sir John A. Fisher, First Sea Lord Sir William Henry May...
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    escaped harm. The next month, another cabinet minister, Home Secretary Reginald McKenna, had his house set on fire in an arson attack. One common target for...
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    April 1908 25 May 1915 Liberal Asquith (I–III) George V (1910–1936) Reginald McKenna MP for North Monmouthshire 25 May 1915 10 December 1916 Liberal Asquith...
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    part of 1915 Birrell was one of those Liberal ministers (others being Reginald McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Walter Runciman (President of the Board...
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  • (1832–1907) Sir Claude Macdonald (1852–1915) The Lord Sandhurst (1855–1921) Reginald McKenna (1863–1943) The Lord Allendale (1860–1923) Sir William Rann Kennedy...
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    House - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and constructed in 1911 for Reginald McKenna, a senior politician who later became chairman of the Midland Bank...
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    "Crusoe Dilke and Man Friday McKenna", a Punch cartoon c. 1900 depicting banker and politician Reginald McKenna as a loyal servant of Sir Charles Dilke...
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    Edwin Montagu (left), Under-Secretary of State for India, with Reginald McKenna in 1911....
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    Tweedmouth in 1873. She was the third daughter of the seventh Duke of..... McCall, Alison (6 April 2016). "Fanny Octavia Louisa Spencer-Churchill". Retrieved...
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    Winston Churchill began taunting the opposition, and in his anger Ronald McNeil hurled a copy of Standing Orders of the House at Churchill, hitting him...
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    occupations came under pressure to enlist. That prompted Home Secretary Reginald McKenna to issue employees in state industries with lapel badges reading "King...
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    In his memoirs Lloyd George stated his regret that his successor Reginald McKenna increased the interest rate at a time when investors had few alternatives...
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    10 December 1905 23 January 1907 Liberal Henry Campbell-Bannerman Reginald McKenna 23 January 1907 12 April 1908 Liberal Walter Runciman 12 April 1908...
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    2014). Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571–1866. McFarland. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7864-5784-7. Retrieved 4 January 2020. Wilkinson...
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    to the Midland Bank came through Reginald McKenna, a senior politician who became the bank's chairman in 1919. McKenna was married to a niece of Gertrude...
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    1911, and when certain Cabinet members found out, they were furious. Reginald McKenna had recently been deprived of his position as First Lord of the Admiralty...
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    Security, and related bodies". The National Archives. Retrieved 3 July 2021. Reginald Beer (15 January 2019). "Henry Addington was a Prime Minister and an 'East...
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    April 2009. Barclay, James A. (1992). Golf in Canada: A History. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. p. 456. ISBN 978-0-7710-1080-4. "No. 32982". The London...
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