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James Ramsay MacDonald
Standard Name: MacDonald, James Ramsay
Used Form: J. Ramsey MacDonald
Used Form: Ramsay MacDonald
Connections
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Occupation | John Buchan | During the decade that began with a by-election in 1927, JB
was a Member of Parliament: one of three who sat for a constituency composed of graduates of some of the Scottish universities. (English universities... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | AU
's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn
, later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher
), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley
. In London she became a... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton
, one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 78 |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales
and Prince George
. A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald
, claimed that he had read all of... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | The friendship between the widowed James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour politician, and LMS
began in 1912 and proved important and long-lasting. She was said to have declined a proposal of marriage from him. The writer... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
Timeline
21 September 1931: Britain abandoned the gold standard....
National or international item
21 September 1931
Britain abandoned the gold standard.
30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...
National or international item
30 July 1932
The Independent Labour Party
, increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party
's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.
7 June 1935: Stanley Baldwin, now of the National Coalition...
National or international item
7 June 1935
Stanley Baldwin
, now of the National Coalition Party
, became Prime Minister for the third time, following MacDonald
's retirement.
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