Who was the British Conservative Party politician who was the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22)?
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William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham PC, KStJ (1853 – 2 July 1920), was a British Conservative Party politician. He held office as President of the Local Government Board and Minister of Information in David Lloyd George's First World War coalition government.
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David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British Liberal politician. As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915), Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of the Central Powers.
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Mervyn Wheatley Colonel Sir Mervyn James Wheatley CBE (24 April 1880 – 26 October 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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James Watts (British politician) James "Jack" Watts (22 August 1903 – 7 July 1961) was a Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Coningsby Disraeli Coningsby Ralph Disraeli (25 February 1867 – 30 September 1936), was a British Conservative politician.
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Independent Liberal Party (UK, 1918) The Independent Liberal Party is a name used for the Parliamentary Liberal Party created in 1918 and led by H. H. Asquith, in opposition to the Coalition government led by the Liberal David Lloyd George. The Coalition candidates (whether Conservatives or Liberal) were marked at the 1918 election by the Coalition Coupon. In fact, the parliamentary party was not independent from the Liberal Party, of which it formed part. Rather, it was independent of Lloyd George.
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David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson Henry David Reginald Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson PC (26 July 1890 – 24 December 1965) was a British Conservative politician, most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips. His sense of the popular mood made him know when to sacrifice unpopular ministers. He protected the appeasement-supporting government as long as he could.
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Ian Harvey (politician) Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Douglas Harvey RA (25 January 1914 – 10 January 1987) was a British businessman and politician, serving as a Conservative Member of Parliament and junior Minister until his resignation in 1958.
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Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington from 1944 to 1950, was a British Conservative and later Social Democratic Party politician. He was a minister in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (his uncle by marriage), but is best known for opening Chatsworth House to the public.
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Christopher Peto Sir Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, 3rd Baronet, DSO (19 February 1897 – 19 May 1980) was a Brigadier in the British Army during World War II and a post-war British Conservative Party politician.
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Albert Atkey Albert Reuben Atkey (1 July 1867 – 9 November 1947) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Harold Gurden Sir Harold Edward Gurden (28 June 1903 – 27 April 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Frederick Corfield Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield, QC, PC (1 June 1915 – 25 August 2005) was a British Conservative politician and minister.
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Geoffrey Howard (Liberal politician) The Honourable Geoffrey William Algernon Howard JP (12 February 1877 – 20 June 1935) was a British Liberal politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under H. H. Asquith between 1911 and 1915.
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William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone, ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal statesman and earlier Conservative politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–74, 1880–85, February–July 1886 and 1892–94), more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old.
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John William Dennis John William Dennis (16 May 1865 – 4 August 1949) was a British politician. He was Mayor of Westminster in 1907-08, when he was described as Liberal Unionist. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1922 for the constituency of Birmingham Deritend. He was the first MP to represent the newly created seat.
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Kenneth Balfour Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Robert Balfour (14 December 1863 – 7 September 1936) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Gerald Arbuthnot Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot (19 December 1872 – 25 September 1916) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.
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Wimbledon by-election, 1916 The Wimbledon by-election of 1916 was held on 19 April 1916. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Henry Chaplin, when he was raised to the peerage. It was won by the Conservative candidate Sir Stuart Coats.
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Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 October 1890 – 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt, between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.
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George Odey George William Odey CBE DL (21 April 1900 – 16 October 1985) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1947 to 1955.
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Minister of Reconstruction The Minister of Reconstruction was a British government post that briefly existed during the latter stages of the Second World War, charged with planning for the post-war period. A succession of government committees had failed to make much progress with the problems arising out of reconstruction and so in 1943 Winston Churchill took the bold step of appointing a single minister as a member of the War Cabinet.