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The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain, the party established a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule.
Despite the fact that certain Liberal Unionists, such as Sir George Trevelyan, drifted back to the Liberal fold, the party remained allied with the Conservatives throughout Salisbury’s second ministry, before finally joining Salisbury’s third administration in 1895.
The Liberal Unionists fused with the Conservative Party in 1912 and their members were admitted to the Carlton Club. H. C. G. Matthew The Oxford Companion to British History
…when it allied with the Liberal Unionists, a faction of the Liberal Party that opposed the policy of Home Rule in Ireland put forward by the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone. Thus reinforced, the Conservatives held office for all but 3 of the next 20 years, first under the leadership…
The Conservative Party was also known as the Unionist Party in the early 20th century. In 1909, the Conservative Party was renamed the Conservative and Unionist Party and in May 1912 it formally merged with the Liberal Unionists.
May 11, 2012 · Over the years since its emergence in 1886 as fierce opponent of Gladstone’s Home Rule scheme for Ireland, the Liberal Unionist Party, led pugnaciously in the Commons by Joe Chamberlain, had drawn so close to the Conservatives that the two Parties had come to operate in practice as two wings of a single entity, known generally as the Unionist Pa...
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Oct 1, 2010 · This ‘compact’ between the Conservatives and the disparate group of anti-home rule whigs, radicals and Scottish church supporters, usually referred to as the Liberal Unionists, had been verbally agreed prior to the 1886 general election. 3.
