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Arthur Henderson, Labour MP for Burnley from 1924 until 1931. One of the best known of the early Labour leaders, and known to many as "Uncle Arthur", he was Home Secretary in the short-lived Labour Government in 1924, and Foreign Secretary in the minority Labour Government of 1929-31. When Henderson fought Burnley at a by- election, he already ...
Arthur Henderson, the son of a cotton spinner, was born in Glasgow on 13th September, 1863. His father, suffered long periods of unemployment, and so Arthur was forced to leave school at nine years old to find work as an errand boy in a photographer's shop. Arthur's wages became even more important to the family income after the death of his ...
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11 de feb. de 2009 · For a recent example of the unpatriotic, party boss view of Henderson, see Williamson, P., ‘Party first and India second: the appointment of the viceroy of India in 1930’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, LVI, 1 (1983), 86–101 CrossRef Google Scholar. Arthur Henderson and the British Political Crisis of 1931* - Volume 31 ...
13 de septiembre de 1863. Arthur Henderson. Político y sindicalista británico. Fue un activo sindicalista y diputado laboralista en 1903. Formó parte del gabinete de gobierno de 1915 a 1917. En 1924 fue ministro del Interior y, de 1929 a 1931, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores. Presidió la Conferencia de Desarme en Ginebra entre 1932 y 1933.
Abstract. This chapter shows how foreign affairs brought Arthur Henderson not only a measure of reconciliation between his ideological Liberalism and his institutional Labourism but a reputational breakthrough from party functionary to world statesman, whilst perhaps also contributing to an under-recognised political miscalculation in August 1931.
In contrast to the vast majority of the Peace Prize Laureates before him, the winner in 1934 had neither upper-class origins nor university training. Arthur Henderson grew up in a working-class family in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Poverty made it impossible for him to complete elementary school, but thanks to participation in trade unions ...
