ABSTRACT
Andrew Bonar Law was Prime Minister for barely six months, in 1922 and 1923, but, nevertheless, was a tremendously important political figure in the decade leading up to that point. In particular, he became the Conservative Leader in October 1911, revitalizing and reorganizing the failing Conservative Party, and was an important supporter of Lloyd George from 1916 until 1922, when he replaced him as Prime Minister. Bonar Law is also the only person of colonial birth and upbringing to become British Prime Minister, and the first politician from a relatively humble, middle-class, background to rise to the top of the ‘greasy pole’ of Conservative politics. Indeed, whilst he was Robert Blake’s ‘Unknown Prime Minister’, he was, nevertheless, seminal in the revival of the Conservative Party.
