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...But anyone believing that things settled down nicely under Salisbury, who was prime minister three times between 1885 and 1902, and his successor Arthur Balfour, in charge until 1906, would be, to quote...
...Lord Salisbury and himself a prime minister....
...The conservative European commissioner Arthur Cockfield worked with the then-commission president Jacques Delors to put in place a single market by 1992....
...It is 1982, prize-giving night at Alfred Beit Primary School in Harare, a city that only a year before was called Salisbury....
...Unlike Gladstone and Salisbury, he did not go to Eton. He came from modest origins, and made his fortune by leaving London for Birmingham....
...Think Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan in the 1950s, Stanley Baldwin in the 1930s, even Lord Salisbury in the 1890s....
...King John, brother of the late Richard the Lionheart, is determined to keep the throne despite the stronger claims of the young Prince Arthur....
...When Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose began trading in 1904 in a shopping parade in west London, they stood out against the adulterated food sold elsewhere....
...She fell in love with Simon Jeffes, founder of music collective Penguin Café Orchestra, set up home with him and had a son Arthur (also a musician)....
...Japanese atrocities, in Port Arthur and Nanjing, lay in the future. It was not of course all bad....
...Arthur Balfour, UK prime minister from 1902 to 1905, owed his start in politics to the patronage of his mother’s brother, Robert Cecil, the Marquess of Salisbury. Bob was, indeed, his uncle....
...Take Lord Salisbury, who was prime minister for 13 years between 1885 and 1902. Born Robert Cecil, Salisbury was an astute manager of Britain’s relationship with the European powers....
...Having three PMs between general elections has not happened in peacetime since Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour and Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1902-06. Nor is it clear who could do better....
...Recently, in this column, I pointed to the absurd mispricing of a classic practical guide to gardening by my former FT colleague Arthur Hellyer. It was selling online for a ludicrously low sum....
...Now they discover he is a prime minister who would regard the Duke of Wellington as a wee bit flighty in his ideas and the Marquess of Salisbury as a pinko flake....
...Andrew Roberts is a fine historian, who, some years ago, wrote an outstanding biography of Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria’s final prime minister....
...Jones: Oh I don’t know – carrying a gun, driving a tank on Salisbury Plain, boasting about it when I’m down the pub and letting everyone think I’m a bit hard....
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