Foundation stone at St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich, London - A Bonar Law Esq., MP, 5 July 1910
Andrew Bonar Law (1858 - 1923) was the member of Parliament for the constituency in which which this building is situated, Dulwich in south London. Elected to this seat in 1906 he was by the end of this year, 1910, to have lost it. However, such was his importance within the Conservative Party, of which he was a prominent member, he was to be re-elected to the then safe Tory seat of Bootle, Lancashire, the following year. Law was to rise to hold the highest political office in the UK being elected Prime Minister 23 October 1922. However, alongside the fact he is the only Prime Minister ever to have been born outside the UK (in Canada) he was also to be the shortest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century as he had to resign after 211 days in office due to his failing health and he died on 30 October 1923.
The church hall this plaque is attached to was designed by Ernest G Cole in a Domestic Revival Arts and Crafts style, erected by subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII. It was associated with the parish church of the same name that was destroyed by fire in 1992 and subsequently replaced by a modern structure. Please don't ask me about the rather heavy handed repointing of this building!
Foundation stone at St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich, London - A Bonar Law Esq., MP, 5 July 1910
Andrew Bonar Law (1858 - 1923) was the member of Parliament for the constituency in which which this building is situated, Dulwich in south London. Elected to this seat in 1906 he was by the end of this year, 1910, to have lost it. However, such was his importance within the Conservative Party, of which he was a prominent member, he was to be re-elected to the then safe Tory seat of Bootle, Lancashire, the following year. Law was to rise to hold the highest political office in the UK being elected Prime Minister 23 October 1922. However, alongside the fact he is the only Prime Minister ever to have been born outside the UK (in Canada) he was also to be the shortest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century as he had to resign after 211 days in office due to his failing health and he died on 30 October 1923.
The church hall this plaque is attached to was designed by Ernest G Cole in a Domestic Revival Arts and Crafts style, erected by subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII. It was associated with the parish church of the same name that was destroyed by fire in 1992 and subsequently replaced by a modern structure. Please don't ask me about the rather heavy handed repointing of this building!