Leaders
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Archive: Palmerston – Hartley Library
Palmerston’s papers at the Hartley Library, University of Southampton.
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Archie and Clem
The story of the relationship between the successive Liberal leaders Sir Archibald Sinclair and Clement Davies.
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The afterlives of former Liberal prime ministers
A look at the lives in retirement of Russell, Gladstone, Rosebery, Asquith and Lloyd George.
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Leaders Good and Bad
Robert Maclennan MP, himself a former leader of the SDP, and Professor Peter Clarke, leading expert on the New Liberals, looked at leaders of the Liberal Party and the SDP over the last hundred years, using analysis and anecdotes to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the two parties leaders. The audience was polled to…
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Clement Davies Liberal Party Saviour?
Clement Davies led the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956. During that time, the party came very close to dying out but it survived. He turned down Churchills offer of a government position and in so doing preserved the partys integrity. His tenure was as long as that of Jo Grimond, the hero of modern…
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David Lloyd George
Owen Lloyd George, the present and 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, the grandson of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, will speak about his famous ancestor at the Kettner Lunch (organised jointly together with the Liberal Democrat History Group) to be held at the National Liberal Club on 15th April. The lunch takes place…
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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908
There have been four Liberals at the head of clearly Liberal governments – Gladstone, Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith. Three of them are well-known names. Yet of the four, ‘CB’ was far and away the best party leader. […]
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Clement Davies, 1884-1962
[…]rom his boyhood Clement Davies had been fascinated by political life. He was approached as a possible Liberal candidate as early as 1910, but did not consent to stand for Parliament until 1927 when he was chosen as the Liberal candidate for his native Montgomeryshire. Seen initially as an avid radical and a stalwart supporter…
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Charles James Fox, 1749-1806
[…]His first years as an MP were marked by a conservative, even reactionary, attitude. […. What] marked his shift to support the Whigs and reform of the system of government were, first, the Royal Marriage Bill, and then the American War of Independence. […] When the Royal Marriage Bill attempted to restrict, at George III’s…