As I do frequently on Art’s History, I am pleased to mark the birth, in what would become Canada, of Andrew Bonar Law in 1858 at Rexton, New Brunswick. He of course, would go on to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after spending his childhood on this side of the Atlantic. His time in Britain’s highest political office was brief but he still made to the top of Disraeli’s “Greasy Poll” in 1922 and served just 209 days at 10 Downing before he had to step down due to health reasons.
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.