Tony Greaves Baron Greaves
former Liberal Party President
Related History
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. Only Grimond, in very different circumstances, can compare with him. Had Campbell-Bannerman not become leader in […]
Related Journal Articles
Letters to the Editor
Bill Pitt (David Steel and Antony Hook); Liberals in local government (Tony Greaves and Mark Smulian)
Assessing Jeremy Thorpe
Four views on Thorpe’s record and character
Audacious – but fundamentally flawed
Review of Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries, Volume 1: 1988-1997 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000).
Of Liberals and Liberalism
Review of Duncan Brack and Robert Ingham (eds.), Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Politico's Publishing, 1999).
Merger most foul
Review of Rachael Pitchford and Tony Greaves, Merger: The Inside Story (Liberal Renewal, 1989).
From angry young man to simmering old guru
Interview with Tony Greaves.
Liberals and the 1945 election (2)
Review of Peter Joyce, The Liberal Party and the 1945 General Election (Liberal Democrat History Group, Sept. 1995).
Events
Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal movement on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s a witness seminar
In the 1960s and early 1970s the press coined the phrase the “Red Guard” to describe the radical politics of the youth wing of the Liberal Party. At the 1966 Party Conference in Brighton, the Red Guard sponsored an anti-NATO resolution. Over the next decade the YLs were active on a number of foreign policy […]
Torrington ’58: Liberal survival and revival, 1945-79
On 27 March 1958, Mark Bonham Carter, Asquith’s grandson, won the Parliamentary by-election in the Devon seat of Torrington by a margin of just 219 votes. It was the first Liberal by-election gain since the 1920s. Although the seat was lost in the 1959 general election, it marked the beginning of the first major Liberal […]
The Legacy of Jo Grimond – Remembering Jo
There were many at the Brighton Conference who were in no doubt that if it wasnt for a young, charismatic party leader they would have no party at all. In 1956 Jo Grimond took over the reigns of the Liberal Party and, as many will argue, he saved it from death. He was responsible for […]
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