abstract:Andrew Alexander Bonar (May 29, 1810 in Edinburgh – December 30, 1892 in Glasgow) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and youngest brother of Horatius Bonar.
He provides a detailed narrative of the selection of each Labour and Conservative leader from AndrewBonar Law, who served briefly as a Tory prime minister in the early 1920s, to the election last year of William Hague as the youngest leader of the Conservative Party this century.