Word: generationâ
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...return to England, he received?like several of the then rising generation???his political apprenticeship as assistant private secretary to the great Lord Salisbury. Once embarked upon a career of statescraft, he rose rapidly and held many of the more important cabinet positions. He did not become Prime Minister for the all-important reason that, since Lord Salisbury's third term of office (1895-1902), no British Premier has been a member of the House of Lords, and it now seems to be an established custom that Premiers must henceforth be members of the House of Commons...