(1868-1922) Power in Britain

sci0x

Hey, I want to make a list of the people in power in Britain between 1868 and 1922 and weather they were Liberal or Conservative. I can't find an exact list of who was in power, and when, on the net so I was hoping someone could help me.

Jim

just make up any old nonesense and stick "gladstone" every couple of sentances and you be fine.

seriously though, gladstone pretty much ruled british politics in this period, also better give benjamin disreille a mention. thats all i can think of off hand.

sci0x

Yeah, they are pretty much the main ones alright but i'm really looking for dates. I want to know who ruled and in what years.

PHB

I'm going from memory here so forgive me if I have inaccuracies but

[C]Disraeli : Febuary-December 1868
[L]Gladstone : 1868-1874
[C]Disraeli : 1874-1880
[L]Gladstone : 1880-1885
[L]Gladstone : Feb-June/July[cant remember] 1886
[L]Gladstone : 1892-1894
Conservatives : 1894-1905
[L]Campbell-Bannerman : 1905-1908
[L]Asquith : 1908-1916
[L kinda]Lloyd George : 1916-1918
[C + George's L] : 1918-past 1922

Hope that helps, I cant remember who ran the converservatives during 94-05

Johnmb

A slight side question. The Tories were the conservatives, as they still are, so I assume that the Whigs were the liberals. Are the modern Lib Dems descended from the Whigs, or were the two parties that formed them both like Labour (i.e. new parties formed during the 20th century)? If the Lib Dems are not descended from the Whigs, what happened to them?

DadaKopf

To my knowledge, the Liberals/Whigs began to lose power once rise of the labour movement generated a new political cleavage after WWI. The Conservative/Labour parliamentary dynamic pushed the Liberals into third place, where they occupied a balance of power similar to that of Parnell's crowd.

I'm not sure when the Lib Dems emerged but it essentially was the product of a fusion of two parties - the liberals and the democrats. The presence of two tertiary parties in Parliament diminished their oppositional capacity by effectively splitting it in half and they felt it was more productive if they joined forces since they were roughly similar in ideology anyway.

But the left/right cleavage has persisted in the UK to parliament still only has two effective parties.

Johnmb

So would the Liberals, who merged with the Democrats in the eighties, have been the decendants of the Whigs? Or did the Whigs actually disappear, and the Liberals were set up as a new party?

spanner

Originally posted by PHB
I'm going from memory here so forgive me if I have inaccuracies but

[C]Disraeli : Febuary-December 1868
[L]Gladstone : 1868-1874
[C]Disraeli : 1874-1880
[L]Gladstone : 1880-1885
[L]Gladstone : Feb-June/July[cant remember] 1886
[L]Gladstone : 1892-1894
Conservatives : 1894-1905
[L]Campbell-Bannerman : 1905-1908
[L]Asquith : 1908-1916
[L kinda]Lloyd George : 1916-1918
[C + George's L] : 1918-past 1922

Hope that helps, I cant remember who ran the converservatives during 94-05

very good you must have been a A history student