3-023-285 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Ramsay MacDonald and His Daughter Ishbel Allan MacDonald Standing Beside a Sundial in a Garden, 1920s. 'In Britain in the twenties, it was a world for the better part of the time, under the premiership of Stanley Baldwin...except for the short time when Ramsay MacDonald took over'. After his wife Margaret's death, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald decided his eldest daughter Ishbel (1903-1982) should be his hostess at 10 Downing Street when he came to power in 1924 as Prime Minister of the country's first Labour Government. At just 20, she became the youngest person ever to take on the role. From "Time To Remember - Came the Dawn", 1925 (Reel 2); peek at the British Film Industry of the 1920s - clips from great silent films and newsreels.