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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Mulberry House (section McKenna and Lutyens)
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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referendum. Some wartime tariffs ("McKenna Duties") were, ironically, introduced by the Liberal Chancellor Reginald McKenna in 1915. Shortly after the First...
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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 Fisher, First Sea Lord Sir William Henry May,...
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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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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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Attendees at the second trial included Lord Kitchener, Lloyd George, Reginald McKenna and other political luminaries. On 12 February an initial order for...
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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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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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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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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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Edwin Montagu (left), Under-Secretary of State for India, with Reginald McKenna in 1911....
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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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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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Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU on their release. In April 1913, Reginald McKenna of the Home Office passed the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill...
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Duchess of Hamilton, Theodore Hamilton Hoste, John MacRae-Gilstrap and Reginald McKenna. Hamilton's royal past, South Lanarkshire Council "the palace and parks:...
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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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1913, working under Chancellors of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, Reginald McKenna, and Bonar Law. Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War,...
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