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...Liberal Party is already split under the leadership of ex-Premier Lloyd George and ex-Premier H. H. Asquith, the former leading the National Liberal Party, the latter the old Liberal Party. It is believed that Mr. Churchill, who was reported about to contest his old seat in Glasgow, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Bonar Law, will be used by Mr. Lloyd George to unite the Liberal Party. It was also stated that Mr. George will, if necessary, consent to serve under his old chief, Mr. Asquith. Surface indications, however, disprove this contention. Mr. George, immediately after landing...
...first represented in Parliament, as a Unionist, the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow, but lost his seat in 1906; the same year he successfully contested the Dulwich division of Camberwell which he represented from 1906-1910; after a futile attempt to carry the business section of Manchester he was elected the member for the Bootle Division, Lanes., 1911-18; in 1918 he became the Member for the Central Division of Glasgow, which he represented until his death...
...married Miss Annie Pitcairn of Glasgow in 1891 (died 1909) and had two sons and two daughters. Both sons were killed in the War to the inconsolable grief of the ex-Premier, whose physical sufferings, long endured, were thereby considerably aggravated. Both daughters are still living to mourn their father: Lady Sykes, wife of Major General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation; Miss Catherine Law, who so admirably stood hostess for her father during his short tenure of office at No. 10 Downing Street...
Signs are that the British metal industries are recovering. A Colombian order for waterworks and an electric plant valued at about $500,000 was received by one firm. Another received an order for the electrification of the Campos de Jordas Railway in Brazil. The Beardmore Co. of Glasgow reported more orders for locomotives from India. Heavy orders are expected from Japan...
...tones were blue and lemon yellow), and a certain noble serenity of atmosphere that has never been surpassed. He painted chiefly genre pieces and" homely portraits of the Dutch bourgeosie, but has two known landscapes in Dutch galleries, and a Christ with Mary and Martha in the Coats collection, Glasgow. The Metropolitan has three Vermeers, including the Young Woman Opening a Casement in the Morgan collection, and the Sleeping Cook, in the Altman collection...