British Liberal politician, prime minister 1905–08, leader of the Liberal party 1898–1908. The Entente Cordiale was broadened to embrace Russia during
modern political movement for reconstituting a Jewish national state in Palestine. The rise of the Zionist movement in the late 19th cent. was
UK political party, one of the two historic British parties; the name replaced Tory in general use from 1830 onwards. Traditionally the party of
1769–1852, British soldier and statesman. Wellesley entered the army in 1787 and, aided by his brother Richard (later Marquess Wellesley ), rose
1867–1947, British statesman; cousin of Rudyard Kipling . The son of a Worcestershire ironmaster, he was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College,
British Conservative politician, prime minister 1957–63; foreign secretary 1955 and chancellor of the Exchequer 1955–57. In 1963 he attempted to
Political leader Margaret Hilda Thatcher (neé Roberts, born October 13, 1925) was the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. The British prime
British Conservative politician, party leader 1965–75. As prime minister 1970–74 he took the UK into the European Community (EC) but was brought down
1792–1878, British statesman; younger son of the 6th duke of Bedford, known most of his life as Lord John Russell. He became a Whig member of
1784–1865, British statesman. His viscountcy, to which he succeeded in 1802, was in the Irish peerage and therefore did not prevent him from entering
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Major, John (1943 - )
British Conservative politician, prime minister 1990–97. He was foreign secretary in 1989 and chancellor of the Exchequer 1989–90. His low-key,
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Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin (1804 - 1881)
British Conservative politician and novelist. Elected to Parliament in 1837, he was chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby in 1852, 1858–59, and
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Smuts, Jan Christian (1870 - 1950)
( yän krĭs'tyän smŭts ), 1870–1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony. Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he
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Canning, George, 1770-1827
1770–1827, British statesman. Canning was converted to Toryism by the French Revolution, became a disciple of William Pitt, and was his undersecretary
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Peel, Sir Robert (1788 - 1850)
1788–1850, British statesman. The son of a rich cotton manufacturer, whose baronetcy he inherited in 1830, Peel entered Parliament as a Tory in 1809.
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Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of, 1818-1887
British politician, leader of the Conservative Party 1880–85. He was chancellor of the Exchequer 1874–80 and foreign secretary 1886–87. As party
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Churchill, Winston (1874 - 1965)
British Conservative politician, prime minister 1940–45 and 1951–55. In Parliament from 1900, as a Liberal until 1924, he held a number of ministerial
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Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
( rĭp'ən ), 1782–1859, British statesman, better known as Viscount Goderich. Entering Parliament as a Tory in 1806, he sponsored the unpopular corn
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Pelham, Henry (1696 - 1754)
English Whig politician. He held a succession of offices in Robert Walpole's cabinet 1721–42, and was prime minister 1743–54. His influence in the
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Marconi, Guglielmo (1874 - 1937)
Place: Italy Subject : biography, technology and manufacturing Italian electrical engineer who saw the possiblity of using radio waves -
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Lubbock, Sir John (1834 - 1913)
Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), Lord Avebury, an English avocational archaeologist, naturalist, banker, and member of parliament, was a close associate
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Pole, Cardinal Reginald (1500 - 1558)
1500–1558, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury (1556–58), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a cousin of the Tudors, being the son
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Cromwell, earl of Essex Thomas (c. 1485 - Jul 28, 1540)
1485?–1540, English statesman. While a young man he lived abroad as a soldier, accountant, and merchant, and on his return (c.1512) to England he
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Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
English Whig politician. He was prime minister in 1783 and 1807–09, each time as titular leader of a government dominated by stronger characters. He
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Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842
1760–1842, British colonial administrator; brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington . He became earl of Mornington on his father's death
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928
1861–1928, British field marshal. He saw active service in Sudan (1898) and in the South African War (1899–1902) and upon the outbreak of World War I
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Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967
( ăt'lē ), 1883–1967, British statesman. Educated at Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1905. His early experience as a social worker in London's
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Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873)
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) changed the way in which the modern world views, and legal systems address, the issues of individual liberty of thought,
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Pitt, the Younger William (1759 - 1806)
British Tory prime minister 1783–1801 and 1804–06. He raised the importance of the House of Commons, clamped down on corruption, carried out fiscal
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Carnegie, Andrew (1835 - 1919)
The major problem with evaluating Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world before John D. Rockefeller took the title around 1910, is that what he
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Cleese, John (1939 - )
1939- ♦ English comic actor and writer Born in Weston-super-Mare, he studied law at Cambridge, where he joined the Footlights Revue (1963),
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Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930
( frĭt'yôf nän'sən ), 1861–1930, Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, statesman, and humanitarian. The diversity of Nansen's interests is shown in
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Howard, Michael (Jul 7, 1941 - )
British Conservative politician, party leader 2003–05. As Conservative leader he steered the party further to the political right, adopting an
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Fox, Charles James (1749 - 1806)
1749–1806, British statesman and orator, for many years the outstanding parliamentary proponent of liberal reform. He entered Parliament in 1768 and
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Monmouth, Duke of James (1649 - 85)
( mŏn'məth ), 1649–85, pretender to the English throne; illegitimate son of Charles II of England by Lucy Walter . After his mother's death, he was
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Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995
British Labour politician, party leader from 1963, prime minister 1964–70 and 1974–76. His premiership was dominated by the issue of UK admission to
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Callaghan, James, 1912-2005
British Labour politician, prime minister and party leader 1976–79. He became prime minister in April 1976 after the unexpected retirement of Harold
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Cameron, David, 1966 October 9-
British Conservative politician, party leader from 2005 and prime minister from 2010. A skilled communicator, he rose rapidly within the Conservative
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Hague, William, 1961-
UK Conservative politician, party leader 1997–2001, foreign and Commonwealth secretary 2010–14, and first secretary of state and leader of the House
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Henderson, Arthur, 1863-1935
British Labour politician and trade unionist, leader of the Labour Party 1914–1918, born in Scotland. He helped to transform the Labour Party from a
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Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919
English physicist who wrote the standard treatise The Theory of Sound (1877–78), experimented in optics and microscopy, and, with William Ramsay ,
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Churchill, Lord Randolph (1849 - 1894)
1849–95, English statesman; son of the 7th duke of Marlborough. A sincere Tory and a founder (1883) of the Primrose League, dedicated to upholding
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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
1676–1745, English statesman. He was the younger son of a prominent Whig family of Norfolk. After the death of his father and elder brothers he was
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Gladstone, William (1809 - 1898)
1809–98, British statesman, the dominant personality of the Liberal party from 1868 until 1894. A great orator and a master of finance, he was deeply
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Brown, Gordon, 1951-
British Labour politician, prime minister and leader of the Labour Party 2007–10. He was chancellor of the Exchequer 1997–2007. He succeeded Tony
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Froude, James Anthony (1818 - 1894)
( frud ), 1818–94, English historian. Educated at Oxford, he took deacon's orders after coming under the influence of the Oxford movement , but he
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Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945
( du'ēvôr ), 1863–1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction. Lloyd George was a brilliantly eloquent, forceful, and creative statesman, but he was
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Blair, Tony, 1953-
British Labour politician, prime minister 1997–2007. He was leader of the Labour Party 1994–2007. On standing down as prime minister in 2007, he
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North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
1732–92, British statesman, best known as Lord North. He entered Parliament in 1754 and became a junior lord of the treasury (1759), privy councilor