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Bonar Law
He spent years as the hard-edged organiser behind Conservative revival, then finally reached Downing Street only to be driven out almost at once by terminal illness.
1858–1923
Life Journey
A timeline of ambition, party warfare and a vanishing premiership
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1858-1870
Colonial Beginnings
Born in New Brunswick to a family with Scottish and Ulster roots, he began life far from Westminster yet inside the wider British world he would later help govern.
