PRIME MINISTERS
- Spencer Perceval to The Earl of Ripon By Alijan Kirk With huge thanks and appreciation we wish Alijan Kirk the best as he moves forward on to his university life, sadly leaving us behind but starting a brand new adventure. This will be his last feature, for now anyway. We hope he might make a come back from time to time but once he has those assignments due in it might be tricky. At least he has had plenty of practice with deadlines, we have heard him say he loves a deadline so hopefully all his work at university will be in on time. We are all really proud of him and we will be following his progress closely. With a keen interest in politics, history and comedy and a talent for all three, it will be interesting to see which path he takes. Well Done Alijan 172
LANCASHIRE & NORTH WEST MAGAZINE
As you may know already, in this series, I chose to write about five Prime Ministers per article. Furthermore, several Prime Ministers have had non-consecutive terms in office, such as The Duke of Newcastle or William Pitt the Younger, but since they were still the same person, I would not count their second term as one of the five I’d cover, so I’d have maybe six sections for five Prime Ministers. It worked out well, since I was always able to cover all their terms in the same article. Today we would have been covering another Prime Minister who had non-consecutive terms, The Duke of Wellington. Unfortunately, he just so happens to be the last one in this group of five, and is then separated by two more Prime Ministers before he returns to office. I don’t want to cover his second term here and thus not keep to the chronology of time by excluding the other two, nor do I want to split his terms across articles. www.lancmag.com
