Prime Minister of New Zealand ministerial power; in 1912 Thomas Mackenzie was the last prime minister to lose power through an unsuccessful confidence motion in the House of Representatives. One change brought about by the First World War was direct participation in governing the British Empire. Previously, New Zealand prime ministers had attended occasional colonial and imperial conferences, but they otherwise communicated with London through the governor (a position then appointed by the British government). In 1917, however, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered the New Zealand prime minister a seat in the Imperial War Cabinet, the British Empire's wartime coordinating body. In 1919,
Prime Minister of Nepal Master of the Royal Orders of Nepal. "Mukhtiyar" Bhimsen Thapa was the first person to be referred to as Prime Minister by the British. Similarly, Historian Chittaranjan Nepali writes that the first institution to hold all state powers was the position of "Mukhtiyar" which was established after the King Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from Varanasi. He further writes that the position was later converted into the Prime Ministership and thus the view expressed by some historians that the post of Prime Minister and the modern system of administration originated in Nepal with the emergence of Damodar Pande does