A future British Prime Minister was born in New Brunswick on this in 1858. Andrew Bonar Law, who served as the UK’s PM for less than a year in 1922 and 1923, was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He would spend the first 12 years of his life on this side of the Atlantic. The future PM was then sent to Scotland where he as raised by an aunt.
Entering British politics as a Conservative in 1900, Law quickly rose to positions of leadership in the Conservative party. When he finally made it to the top of what Disraeli famously described as the “greasy poll,” his tenure as Britain’s PM was brief. He was diagnosed with cancer while at 10 Downing Street and this forced his resignation. Law died soon after and is often today referred to the as UK’s “Unknown Prime Minister.”
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.