Along with Jesse Collings, this man adopted Eli Hamshire's slogan of "three acres and a cow" as his promise for reformers.
Along with Jesse Collings, this man adopted Eli Hamshire's slogan of "three acres and a cow" as his promise for reformers. Elected mayor of Birmingham after a brilliant career as the head of a screw manufacturing concern, this man was known as a "gas and water Socialist" and his first significant cabinet post was as president of the Board of Trade. Late in life this man championed a tariff union meant to protect his nation from competition with American manufacturers, an issue over which he broke with Arthur Balfour. (*) Along with Lord Hartington, this man was the main leader of the Liberal Unionists, who broke from Gladstone's Liberals over the question of Irish Home Rule. As Colonial Secretary under his rival Lord Salisbury, this man instructed the British colonists not to assist the Jameson Raid, though he later helped persecute the Second Boer War. For 10 points, name this British politician and staunch advocate of imperialism, the father of Austen and Neville.
Along with Jesse Collings, this man adopted Eli Hamshire's slogan of "three acres and a cow" as his promise for reformers.
Joseph Chamberlain