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Prime Minister. The statesman who in response to a summons from the King accepts the commission to form a Ministry; the Premier. The expression is of comparatively recent origin, dating from about the end of the eighteenth century. By a Royal warrant of December, 1905, he takes precedence directly after the Archbishop of York See Lord Morley's Walpole, ch vii., for an account of the position of the Prime Minister, and Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 38).