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Bonar Law

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. He was the first prime minister born outside of Britain and the shortest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

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The public source identifies “Bonar Law” as prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bonar, Prime and Minister.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bonar, Prime and Minister providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bonar Law” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.