Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 - Hardcover

Betts, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853238634 ISBN 13: 9780853238638

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Navy cloth boards with silver titles. DW has tear to front and ripple creasing on back, otherwise the book is As New, looks unread.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is an historical biography of 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 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. Dr Macnamara was a member of the Executive of the NUT for 17 years (President 1896-97); member of the London School Board, 1894-1904; editor of the "Schoolmaster", 1892-1907; Member of Parliament, 1900-24; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, 1907-08; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1908-20; and Minister of Labour, 1920-22. Details of Macnamara's pre-Parliamentary career are provided and, alongside the biographical account, the book deals with a range of major issues with which Macnamara was involved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0853238634
• ISBN 13: 9780853238638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416