This is his statue in The Back Walk, Stirling, the city he represented in Parliament for forty years until his death in 1908..

His father, Sir James Campbell, was the Conservative Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1840 to 1843 and his older brother – also James – was a Conservative MP from 1880 to 1906. However, Henry was a life-long Liberal. He was elected the member of parliament for Stirling Burghs in 1868 at the age of thirty-one and served as Secretary of State for War twice, once under Gladstone and once under Rosebery. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908 and Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908.

He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called "Prime Minister", the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office. He is also the only person to have held the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time.

He was one of at least nine British prime ministers with Scottish blood since 1900, some with little more than a trace. Here are the ones I was thinking of along with some of the things they said or were said of them::

Arthur Balfour – "Bob's your uncle!"   Said of him when his uncle, prime minister Lord Salisbury (Robert Cecil), appointed him Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman – “The Duma Is dead. Long live the Duma".   On hearing that the Russian Parliament had been dissolved by Tsar Nicholas II in 1906. It was later reinstated only to be dissolved again by the Bolsheviks when they took power in 1917. In 1993, four years after the fall of the communist regime, the Duma was resurrected. It is now the lower legislative house of the Russian Federation.

Andrew Bonar Law – "The unknown Prime Minister is being buried by the side of the Unknown Soldier".   Said of him by Herbert Henry Asquith during his funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1923.

Ramsay MacDonald – "We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide".   A comment made in 1930 at the midpoint between the two world wars.

Harold Macmillan – "The wind of change is blowing through this continent".   Said of Africa when many Commonwealth countries were becoming independent.

Alec Douglas-Home – "After half a century of democratic advance, the whole process has ground to a halt with a Fourteenth Earl".   Said of him by Harold Wilson when, whilst still Baron Home of the Hirsel, he was chosen by the ruling Conservative party to be Prime Minister. On 23 October 1963, four days after assuming the post, he disclaimed his earldom and associated lesser peerages.

Tony Blair – "Education, education, education." .  When asked what his priorities were on becoming Prime Minister in 1997.

Gordon Brown – "Prudence is the other woman in Gordon's life". .  Said of him by an unknown aide and reported on the BBC website.

David Cameron – "This house shouldn’t block the will of the British people to leave the European Union".