James Ramsay MacDonald FRS (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister...
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father Ramsay MacDonald in breaking with the party and joining the National Government. He was consequently expelled from the Labour Party. MacDonald was...
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Arthur Henderson (section The MacDonald "betrayal")
two years later, in 1910. In 1914 the First World War broke out and Ramsay MacDonald resigned from the Leadership of the Labour Party in protest. Henderson...
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were Ramsay MacDonald (1931–1937) and his son Malcolm MacDonald (1937–1945). The most prominent member was the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. National...
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entered into a coalition with Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. This decision led to MacDonald's expulsion from his own party, and Baldwin, as Lord...
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Mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom under prime minister Ramsay MacDonald. Treasury Bill was described as a ginger cat and a "a renowned ratcatcher"...
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Sheila Lochhead (redirect from Sheila MacDonald)
Sheila Ramsay Lochhead (née MacDonald; 7 December 1910 – 22 July 1994) was a hostess, prison visitor and writer. In 1924 her widowed father, Ramsay MacDonald...
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The second MacDonald ministry was formed by Ramsay MacDonald on his reappointment as prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George V on 5 June 1929...
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Ethel MacDonald (née Gladstone; 20 July 1870 – 8 September 1911) was a British feminist, social reformer, and wife of Labour politician Ramsay MacDonald from...
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Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition...
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Allan MacDonald (2 March 1903 – 20 June 1982) was the daughter of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Ramsay MacDonald and his wife Margaret MacDonald née...
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ISBN 978-0-19-906606-3. Ramsay Macdonald, The Awakening of India (1909) advocated progress towards Indian self-government. MacDonald Papers file 112/1/67...
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National Government (1931–1935) (redirect from Fourth MacDonald ministry)
The National Government of 1931–1935 was formed by Ramsay MacDonald following his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George...
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1935 United Kingdom general election (category Ramsay MacDonald)
Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party after the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald due to ill health earlier in the year. It is the most recent British...
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The first MacDonald ministry of the United Kingdom lasted from January to November 1924. The Labour Party, under Ramsay MacDonald, had failed to win the...
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first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second minority (1929–1931). After retaining...
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national level alongside both Keir Hardie, Professor Arnold Lupton and Ramsay MacDonald. Snowden married Ethel Annakin, a campaigner for women's suffrage,...
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England; all party leaders before him had been born in Scotland. In 1924, Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour prime minister, leading a minority government...
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were: Ramsay MacDonald can die.' By the time he went through resulting party alignments and possible permutations of cabinet posts, Ramsay MacDonald had...
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2022. Retrieved 6 July 2019. During the 1920s, Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's cat - a renowned rat-catcher - had the rather regal title of Rufus...
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in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–1931. MacDonald and half his cabinet split with the mainstream of...
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(Arabic : الورقة السوداء), was a letter from British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to Chaim Weizmann on 13 February 1931 regarding the passage of the...
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Parliament at the age of twenty-six. The first Labour Government, under Ramsay MacDonald, took office in January 1924. Eden's maiden speech (19 February 1924)...
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National Government (1931) (redirect from Third MacDonald ministry)
during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom. It was formed by Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the collapse of the...
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1923 United Kingdom general election (category Ramsay MacDonald)
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough seats to...
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1931 United Kingdom general election (category Ramsay MacDonald)
social crises brought about by the Great Depression, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split from the Labour Party and formed a new national government in...
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traditional homespun dhoti, posed leaving Number 10 after meeting with Ramsay MacDonald to discuss India's independence. This picture, too, became famous especially...
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for the Colonies and as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Ramsay MacDonald's second Labour Government in 1929.[citation needed] As Colonial Secretary...
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Conservative-Liberal pact. Roy Douglas called the decision to put in Ramsay MacDonald "the most disastrous single action ever performed by a Liberal towards...
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National Government (United Kingdom) (category Ramsay MacDonald)
In a historical sense, it refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931...
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