Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
15 - Exclusion
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The first Labour government lasted only nine months. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October 1924; five days later Macnamara was formally adopted as Liberal candidate for North West Camberwell at a constituency association meeting in the Surrey Masonic Hall. It was twenty-four years since he had first been elected to Parliament. Throughout all those long years, he reminded his supporters, Camberwell folk had supported him with unbroken loyalty – loyalty for which he could never sufficiently express his gratitude:
We have carried the flag of sane common sense progress to victory eight times. We have got to make it nine … If you only realise the tremendous task before you, I am perfectly satisfied you will achieve it. But take nothing for granted, make up your minds that the task before you is far and away the biggest you have ever undertaken in the long years of our association with one another and to our eighth triumph we will add another and the greatest of all (Cheers).
In October 1900, after his first campaign, the South London Observer (and) Camberwell and Peckham Times, the local Conservative newspaper, received Macnamara's 1,335 vote victory with resignation as an admittedly brilliant conquest of an unstable seat:
The defeat of Mr Diggle is softened in bitterness by the recognition of the high abilities and exceptional personnel [sic] of his conqueror, and the chastening atmosphere of the House of Commons will speedily subdue the perfervid Radicalism of the redoubtable School Board champion. […]
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- Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 , pp. 341 - 362Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999