James Ramsay MacDonald 1866 – 1937
James Ramsay MacDonald 1866 – 1937 was a British Labour politician, who served two separate terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose from humble origins to become the first ever British Labour Prime Minister in 1924.
Ramsay MacDonald was looked after as a child by his father’s housekeeper, Mrs. Grey, the widow of a homeopathic doctor (?James Joseph Gray),
Ramsay MacDonald served under George V, who was a patient of homeopath John Weir (he knighted him), and was especially fond of using homeopathic remedies to cure his seasickness.
Ramsay MacDonald counted homeopathic supporters Richard Stafford Cripps and Sidney Webb in his cabinet, and Havelock Ellis and George Bernard Shaw as colleagues in the Fabian Society, so he would have also known Annie Wood Besant, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Frank Podmore, Katherine Maria Routledge, Herbert George Wells, Leonard Sidney Woolf,
Ramsay MacDonald was also a colleague of Herbert Henry Asquith, Henry Campbell Bannerman, Stanley Baldwin,
Ramsay MacDonald moved to Bristol just as the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital was flourishing, and he was a private secretary to Thomas Lough (whose cousin, also called Thomas Lough, was a homeopath and whose Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Review, Volume 49 in 1905),
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