George Nicoll Barnes

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George Nicoll Barnes CH (January 2, 1859 - April 21, 1940) was a Scottish politician and a leader of the Labour Party.

Barnes was born in Lochee, Dundee. He was apprenticed as an engineer and became General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. At the 1895 general election he stood unsuccessfully for the Independent Labour Party in Rochdale. He was elected as MP for Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown at the 1906 general election for the Labour Party. He sat for that constituency until it was abolished for the 1918 general election, and thereafter sat for Glasgow Gorbals until he stood down at the 1922 election.

He was leader of the Labour Party from February 14, 1910 to February 6, 1911. He was Minister of Pensions (1916-1917) and Minister without Portfolio (1917-1920) under David Lloyd George. In 1918 the Labour Party decided to leave the Lloyd George Coalition but Barnes refused to resign. As a result he was expelled from the Labour Party and founded the National Democratic Party. After finishing as a minister he played no further significant role in UK politics.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by:
Andrew Bonar Law		 Member of Parliament for Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown
1906–1918		 Succeeded by:
(constituency abolished)
Preceded by:
(new constituency)		 Member of Parliament for Glasgow Gorbals
1918–1922		 Succeeded by:
George Buchanan
Political offices
Preceded by:
Arthur Henderson		 Leader of the British Labour Party
1910-1911		 Succeeded by:
Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by:
New Post		 Minister of Pensions
1916-1917		 Succeeded by:
John Hodge


Leaders of the Labour Party
Keir Hardie, Arthur Henderson, George Nicoll Barnes, Ramsay MacDonald, Arthur Henderson, William Adamson, John Robert Clynes, Ramsay MacDonald, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Clement Attlee, Hugh Gaitskell, George Alfred Brown, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Margaret Beckett, Tony Blair
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