Prime Ministers' Biographies
was interested to read Janus's comments about the biographies of our Prime Ministers, and was particularly glad to learn that the life of Lord Baldwin will soon be published.
But what about the life of Ramsay MacDonald? There was an admirable volume by Lord Elton published shortly before the outbreak of the last war. This book, however, was incomplete in that it only carried the subject down to the end of the First World War, or thereabouts. Has a second volume ever been written and published ? I have never seen or heard of it. If I am wrong about this I should be glad to be corrected. If not, then the biography of Ramsay MacDonald is at an
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Janus writes: I had not forgotten Lord Elton's unfinished biography of Ramsay MacDonald—or Lady Gwendoline Cecil's biography of her father, Lord Salisbury, which at the time of her death she had carried down only to 1892; LOA Salisbury himself died in 1903. Incidentally. I believe the one Prime Minister of the nineteenth century without t. biographer is Lord Goderich 11827).
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