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    Reginald McKenna (6 July 1863 – 6 September 1943) was a British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was...
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  • languages into English, a.o. Louis Couperus, whom McKenna befriended in 1921. His uncle was Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer under H. H. Asquith...
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    ensure funding for their reforms, Lloyd George and Churchill denounced Reginald McKenna's policy of naval expansion, refusing to believe that war with Germany...
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  • Australian actor Willie McKenna (1889–1958), Scottish footballer Makenna Cowgill (born 1998), American child actress Mckenna Grace (born 2006), American...
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    of Westminster, London. It was built in 1911 as a private house for Reginald McKenna, a politician and later Chairman of the Midland Bank. The architect...
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    after the declaration of the First World War, the Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna, announced that "within the last twenty-four hours no fewer than twenty-one...
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    prohibitively expensive. He was one of the small group, that included Reginald McKenna, who believed in sound public finances;[citation needed] they had witnessed...
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    October 1911 – Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds...
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    escaped harm. The next month, another cabinet minister, Home Secretary Reginald McKenna, had his house set on fire in an arson attack. One common target for...
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    military expenditure. Lloyd George strongly supported this, writing to Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, of "the emphatic pledges given by all...
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    that Simon had organised "a conclave of malcontents" (Lloyd George, Reginald McKenna, Samuel, Charles Hobhouse and Beauchamp). He wrote to Asquith that...
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    "Crusoe Dilke and Man Friday McKenna," a Punch cartoon c. 1900 depicting banker and politician Reginald McKenna as a loyal servant of Sir Charles Dilke...
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    to the Midland Bank came through Reginald McKenna, a senior politician who became the bank's chairman in 1919. McKenna was married to a niece of Gertrude...
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    occupations came under pressure to enlist. That prompted Home Secretary Reginald McKenna to issue employees in state industries with lapel badges reading "King...
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    pressure since mid-1915. In May 1916, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna suggested that Kitchener head a special and confidential mission to...
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    Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU on their release. In April 1913, Reginald McKenna of the Home Office passed the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill...
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    In his memoirs Lloyd George stated his regret that his successor Reginald McKenna increased the interest rate at a time when investors had few alternatives...
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    April 1908 25 May 1915 Liberal Asquith (I–III) George V (1910–1936) Reginald McKenna MP for North Monmouthshire 25 May 1915 10 December 1916 Liberal Asquith...
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    referendum. Some wartime tariffs ("McKenna Duties") were, ironically, introduced by the Liberal Chancellor Reginald McKenna in 1915. Shortly after the First...
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    Security, and related bodies". The National Archives. Retrieved 3 July 2021. Reginald Beer (15 January 2019). "Henry Addington was a Prime Minister and an 'East...
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    Germany, and that nation moving ahead with its own dreadnoughts, led Reginald McKenna, when Asquith appointed him First Lord of the Admiralty in 1908, to...
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    2014). Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571–1866. McFarland. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7864-5784-7. Retrieved 4 January 2020. Wilkinson...
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    Winston Churchill began taunting the opposition, and in his anger Ronald McNeil hurled a copy of Standing Orders of the House at Churchill, hitting him...
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    Christopher Hollis Katharine Asquith, widow of Raymond Asquith Reginald McKenna (in the McKenna family grave) Lt. Col. Simon Fordham OBE The interior includes...
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    Attendees at the second trial included Lord Kitchener, Lloyd George, Reginald McKenna and other political luminaries. On 12 February an initial order for...
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    part of 1915 Birrell was one of those Liberal ministers (others being Reginald McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Walter Runciman (President of the Board...
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    April 2009. Barclay, James A. (1992). Golf in Canada: A History. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. p. 456. ISBN 978-0-7710-1080-4. "No. 32982". The London...
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    House - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and constructed in 1911 for Reginald McKenna, a senior politician who later became chairman of the Midland Bank...
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    Viking. pp. 136–141. ISBN 978-0-670-80486-3. Retrieved November 26, 2012. McCullough, David (1992). Truman. Simon & Schuster. Sutton, Antony (1975). Wall...
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    Nunn May – Physicist and Soviet spy Reginald McKenna – Chancellor of the Exchequer during World War I Marshall McLuhan – Media theorist Sir John Meyrick...
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