Born at Lossiemouth, on the Moray Firth, Scotland.
The first Labour Prime Minister: 1924, 1929-35. The first prime minister to give cabinet office to a woman (Margaret Bondfield).
Died on the liner Reina del Pacifico, bound for South America, following a game of deck quoits. After a public funeral in Westminster Abbey his ashes were taken to Lossiemouth and buried in the grave where his wife's Margaret's had been buried twenty-six years before.
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Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald, 1866 - 1937, Prime Minister; Donald Ogden Stewart, 18...
Ramsay MacDonald, 1866 - 1937, Prime Minister, lived here, 1916 - 1925. Londo...
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Ramsay MacDonald
Bronze statue unveiled on 19 December 1914. Sculpted by Goulden to Ramsay's d...
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