United Kingdom Political Scams 1910's

  • Marconi scandal of insider trading by Liberal Party Ministers including:
    • Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Attorney General
    • The Master of Elibank, Lord Murray, the Treasurer of the Liberal Party,
    • David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
    • Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General; was falsely implicated. (1912)
  • Shell Crisis of 1915, which led to the fall of Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberal Party government duringWorld War I.

Post a Comment