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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453518303321

Autore

Betts Robin

Titolo

Dr Macnamara, 1861-1931 [[electronic resource] /] / Robin Betts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-84631-298-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Disciplina

941.082

Soggetti

Politicians - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-407) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1: Apprenticeship in Education; 2: The Board School Teacher, 1882-1892; 3: The Schoolmaster; 4: The London School Board, 1894-1897; 5: President of the NUT; 6: The London School Board, 1897-1900; 7: Parliament, 1900-1902; 8: The Education Act, 1902; 9: The End of the London School Board; 10: The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903-1905; 11: Outside and Inside the Government, 1905-1908; 12: Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1908-1914; 13: Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1914-1920; 14: Minister of Labour

15: ExclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This well-researched historical biography is the first on Dr T. J. Macnamara, the first ex-elementary teacher to win a government post. Colleague and close friend of Lloyd George, and praised by Winston Churchill, Macnamara was an educationist, journalist and Cabinet Minister. This study of his life and career makes a major contribution to educational history as well as to the history of the Liberal Party, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and British political history generally. Fascinating details of Macnamara's pre-Parliamentary career are provided and, alongside the biographical account