For a long time, indeed, there was a marked tendency to consider the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer as the most important in the cabinet after that of the Prime Minister, to regard the person who held it as heir presumptive to the premiership, and to make him leader in the House of Commons when his chief was a peer.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
In a similar manner there developed Mr. Sambourne's peculiarly happy "Cartoon Junior," representing Mr. Gladstone, newly retired, looking up from the perusal of the first speech made by Lord Rosebery on his promotion to the premiership-a speech some of the points of which he afterwards had to withdraw or explain away-with the words, "Pity a Prime Minister should be so ambiguous!"
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Miss Cornish, a middle-aged lady in black lace, sat at her right, at the head of the largest table, being the most paying of these paying guests, by which virtue she held also the ingleside premiership of the parlour overhead.
"Harlequin and Columbine"
Booth Tarkington