Question: Sir Frederick William Richards led a huge shipbuilding and naval works programme under a British Conservative statesman who served as prime minister for over how many years?

Context articles: Frederick Richards (judge)
Frederick Burrows
Bill Bennett
Frederick Richards
Strait of Messina Bridge
Frederick William Richards Fryer
Prime Minister’s Youth Programme
Fred Pontin
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Anthony Hoskins

Sir Frederick William Richards (1869-1957) was an Australian jurist.
 He retired from the Supreme Court of South Australia as senior puisne Judge in December 1945, having had a long and distinguished career of public service.
 He had been a Justice of the court since 1927.
Sir Frederick John Burrows, GCSI, GCIE (1887–1973), was a British politician who served as the last British Governor of Bengal during British Raj in India.
 He was Governor of Bengal from 19 February 1946 to 14 August 1947.
 Sir Frederick Burrows was against the partition of Bengal.
 Sir Frederick Burrows was a former Ross railway man and he was the president of the National Union of Railwaymen, the union representing railway workers in England.
William Richards "Bill" Bennett, PC, OBC (April 14, 1932 – December 3, 2015) was the 27th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986.
 He was a son of Annie Elizabeth May (Richards) and former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett.
 He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of R.B. Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick William Richards, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 November 1833 – 28 September 1912) was a Royal Navy officer.
 He commanded a paddle-sloop during the Second Opium War in 1860 and, as senior officer on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station, he landed on the coast of East Africa with a small naval brigade which he led at the Battle of Gingindlovu and the Siege of Eshowe in April 1879 during the Anglo–Zulu War.
 He took part in the Battle of Laing's Nek in January 1881 during the First Boer War and, as Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station, he organized and equipped a naval brigade to support the British advance up the Irrawaddy River in November 1885 during the Third Anglo-Burmese War.
 He went on to be First Naval Lord and in that role led a huge shipbuilding and naval works programme undertaken in accordance with the provisions of the Naval Defence Act 1889.
 The programme was opposed by Prime Minister William Gladstone who was concerned about its vast cost and who resigned after a Cabinet defeat over it in March 1894.
 The programme continued under the Governments of Lord Rosebery and then Lord Salisbury and Richards remained in office driving the programme throughout the political turmoil.
The Strait of Messina Bridge is a long-planned suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, a narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy, specifically between north Messina's Torre Faro and Villa San Giovanni.
 In 2006, under Prime Minister Romano Prodi, the project was cancelled.
 However, on 6 March 2009, as part of a massive new public works programme, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that construction of the Messina Bridge would indeed go ahead, pledging €1.3 billion as a contribution to the bridge's total cost, estimated at €6.1 billion.
 The bridge would have been the longest suspension bridge in the world, almost doubling the main span of the Akashi-Kaikyo in Japan.
 The bridge would have been part of the Line 1 of Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
 Citing budget constraints, the project was cancelled again on 26 February 2013, by Prime Minister Mario Monti's government.
Sir Frederick William Richards Fryer, KCSI (1845–20 February 1922) served as Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from May 1897 to April 1903.
Prime Minister’s Youth Programme is a special initiative launched by Pakistani government in 2013.
 The Youth Programme comprises the several schemes including Prime Minister’s Interest Free Loan Scheme, Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loans, Prime Minister’s Youth Training Scheme, Prime Minister’s Youth Skills Development Scheme, Prime Minister’s Scheme for Provision of Laptops and Prime Minister’s Scheme for Reimbursement of Fee of Students from the Less Developed Areas.
 It is headed by Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
 The total worth of PKR 20 billion spread over 5 years.
Sir Frederick William Pontin (24 October 1906 - 30 September 2000) was born in Highams Park, the son of Frederick William Pontin and Elizabeth Marian Tilyard and was knighted in 1976.
 He died in Blackpool aged 93.
 He had a successful career in the city's Stock Exchange.
 He attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow.
 During World War II, he was involved in helping to establish hostels for construction workers.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (3 February 183022 August 1903), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman, serving as prime minister three times for a total of over 13 years.
 He was the last prime minister to head his full administration from the House of Lords.
Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 September 1828 – 21 June 1901) was a Royal Navy officer.
 As a junior officer, he took part in the Cape Frontier War of 1851 and then saw action at the Battle of Canton in December 1857 and the Battle of Taku Forts in May 1858 during Second Opium War.
 Once promoted to flag officer rank, he acted as Second-in-Command of the Fleet at the bombardment of Alexandria in July 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War.
 He went on to be First Naval Lord in September 1891 but in that role took a relaxed view of the size of the Fleet and did not see the need for a large shipbuilding effort on the scale envisaged by some of his colleagues, such as Admiral Sir Frederick Richards and Admiral Sir John Fisher who were concerned about French and German naval expansion.