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Long, Walter
Long, Walter (1854–1924). Conservative statesman. After holding junior office, Long entered the cabinet in 1895 and held a variety of middle-rank ministerial positions until the Conservative electoral disaster of January 1906. Between 1906 and 1910 he consolidated his position within the first rank of Conservative politics, emerging as a moderate tariff reformer and as an enthusiastic patron of Irish unionism. He was a contender for the Conservative leadership in November 1911, but—with Austen Chamberlain—withdrew in favour of Bonar Law. It is doubtful whether he had either the equanimity or the political subtlety to lead the Conservatives, though he certainly represented an antidote to Balfourian sophistication. He was appointed president of the Local Government Board at the formation of the first wartime coalition in May 1915, and became colonial secretary when the Lloyd George coalition was formed in December 1916. He was 1st lord of the Admiralty, his last ministerial post, between January 1917 and February 1921: he received a viscountcy after his retirement. A conscientious though unimaginative administrator, who held a representative significance as a leader of landed Toryism, Long is often depicted as a dull-witted squire, but was ferociously ambitious and strategically alert.
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JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-LongWalter.html JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-LongWalter.html |
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Long, Walter
Long, Walter (1854–1924), another of the highly placed members of the British Conservative Party, along with Lansdowne and the earl of Midleton (see Brodrick (Midleton)), who were actively associated with the Irish unionist cause in the period before and during the First World War. The son of a Wiltshire landowner, whose mother was from a Co. Wicklow gentry family, Long was in parliament from 1880 and in the cabinet from 1895. Having served as chief secretary for Ireland in the last months before the Conservatives lost office in 1906, he succeeded Saunderson as leader of the Unionist parliamentary grouping 1906–10, during which period he sat as MP for South Co. Dublin. He was back in the cabinet from 1915, and joined with Lansdowne in overthrowing Lloyd George's attempts to negotiate an immediate settlement based on home rule for 26 counties in May–July 1916. In 1919 he chaired the cabinet's Irish Situation Committee, whose report of 4 Nov. laid the foundation for the Government of Ireland Act.
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"Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-LongWalter.html "Long, Walter." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-LongWalter.html |
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Long, Walter
Long, Walter (1854–1924). Conservative statesman. After holding junior office, Long entered the cabinet in 1895. He was a contender for the Conservative leadership in November 1911, but—with Austen Chamberlain—withdrew in favour of Bonar Law. He was appointed president of the Local Government Board in the first wartime coalition in May 1915, and became colonial secretary when the Lloyd George coalition was formed in December 1916. He was 1st lord of the Admiralty, his last ministerial post, between January 1917 and February 1921.
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JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-LongWalter.html JOHN CANNON. "Long, Walter." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-LongWalter.html |
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