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David Lloyd George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government. In 1929 Lloyd George became Father of the House, the longest serving member of the Commons. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Lloyd_George   (1962 words)

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Lloyd George immediately reorganized the structure of the government, creating a small war cabinet of five (which when attended also by representatives of the dominions and India became the Imperial war cabinet) and forming for the first time a cabinet secretariat. At the Paris Peace Conference (1919), Lloyd George exercised a moderating influence on both the harsh demands of Georges Clemenceau and the idealistic proposals of Woodrow Wilson, and to a large extent he shaped the final agreement (see Versailles, Treaty of). Lloyd George continued to be active in Parliament and, despite the fact that he was disliked by many Liberals for his treatment of Asquith, served (1926–31) as the leader of the by-then shattered Liberal party. www.bartleby.com /65/ll/LloydGeo.html   (600 words)

First World War.com - Who's Who - David Lloyd George David Lloyd George (1863-1945), invariably considered the quintessential Welshman, was in fact born in Manchester on 17 January 1863, the son of a schoolmaster. Lloyd George married in 1888, to Margaret Owen, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. Lloyd George was appointed to serve in the Campbell-Bannerman government as President of the Board of Trade, from 1905-8. www.firstworldwar.com /bio/lloydgeorge.htm   (924 words)

David Lloyd George Lloyd George was acclaimed as the man who had won the war, and in 1918 the coalition won a huge majority. Lloyd George later precipitated the fall of Neville Chamberlain by attacking his wartime failure in Norway in 1940. Lloyd George's personal secretary from 1913 until their marriage in 1943 she had one child, a daughter, although it was often said that she was adopted. www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page139.asp   (892 words)

BBC - History - Wars - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Lloyd George has been variously described as - the ‘Welsh wizard’, a ‘dynamic force’ who failed to ‘inspire trust’ — but he is popularly remembered simply as ‘the man who won the war’. As Prime Minister, Lloyd George’s achievements include the introduction of universal adult suffrage (1918) and significant housing and education legislation; he was also a key figure at the post-war peace conference held in Versailles. Lloyd George underestimated support for the IRA, which he described as a ‘murder gang’, and the difficulties involved in defeating it. www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/easterrising/profiles/po09.shtml   (471 words)

Encyclopedia: David Lloyd George The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Jump to: navigation, search October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, known was Viscount Turnour until 1907, (1883-1962) was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father of the House at the opposite ends... www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/David-Lloyd-George   (7253 words)

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor on Encyclopedia.com Lloyd George was a brilliantly eloquent, forceful, and creative statesman, but he was often unscrupulous and opportunistic in his methods and widely mistrusted. Pictures and Maps for: Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LloydG1eo.asp   (174 words)

Lloyd George, Henry Hunt, Margaret Beckett, Hugh Scanlon, Ernest Marples and other Policians and Social Reformers of ... It is a little-known fact that David Lloyd George was actually not born in Wales, but in Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester on 17 January 1863, the son of William George, a local headmaster. Although he qualified as a solicitor, Lloyd George never really practised Law, but was elected to parliament as a representative of the Liberal Party in 1890, and was to remain MP for the Caernarfon constituency for the next 55 years. Lloyd George's post-war coalition began to fall apart and Lloyd George resigned in 1922. www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/politicians4.html   (1563 words)

BBC - History - David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1863 - 1945) Lloyd George's 1909 budget has been called the 'people's budget' since it provided for social insurance that was to be partly financed by land and income taxes. At the successful conclusion of the war, Lloyd George was Britain's chief delegate to the Paris Peace Conference that drafted the Versailles Treaty. When, in 1922, Lloyd George established the Irish Free State, the price that he paid was his prime ministership as the Conservatives withdrew from the coalition and effectively shattered the Liberal Party. www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/george_david_lloyd.shtml   (473 words)

David Lloyd George Biography / Biography of David Lloyd George Biography Biography george · david · of england · politics · prime minister · lloyd · nonconformist · english statesman · cabinet officials · liberal party · land reform · tithe · baptist preacher · radicals persons · william george · farmers union · david lloyd It has been said of David Lloyd George that he "was the first son of the people to reach supreme power." His life is representative of the transition in leadership from the landed aristocracy of the 19th century to the mass democracy of the 20th. Lloyd George, as in later days he would have his surname, was born on Jan. 17, 1863, in Manchester, the son of William George, a schoolmaster of Welsh background, and of Elizabeth Lloyd. www.bookrags.com /biography-david-lloyd-george   (265 words)

Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The title of Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1945 for David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister. Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1889-1968) Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (b. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl%2BLloyd%2BGeorge   (137 words)

David Lloyd George biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM (January 17, 1863–March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. When the Libral government fell as a result of the Shell Crisis of 1915 and was replaced with a coalition government dominated by Liberals still under the Premiership of Asquith, Lloyd George became the first Minister of Munitions in 1915 and then war secretary in 1916. Memorably, he replied to a question as to how he had done at the peace conference, "Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon." Lloyd George favoured plebiscites on the German-Polish border that resulted in many military clashes and extremely long and defenceless border between those two countries. david-lloyd-george.biography.ms   (1579 words)

I25883: David Lloyd George 1st Earl Lloyd George Of Dwyfor (17 JAN 1863 - 26 MAR 1945) David Lloyd George was one of the commanding figures in 20th-century British politics and the only person of Welsh extraction to become prime minister. Lloyd George acquired recognition speaking for the interests of Welsh nonconformists--including temperance, disestablishment of the Anglican church in Wales, nondenominational education, and local autonomy. Lloyd George imposed an effective regime of "war socialism" upon the British people, but he quarreled with his generals, particularly Douglas HAIG, and was unable to cut the heavy casualties on the western front. web.ukonline.co.uk /nigel.battysmith/Database/D0008/I25883.html   (793 words)

David Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (January 17, 1863 - March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Despite this opposition, Lloyd George steered the country politically through the war, and represented Britain at the Versailles Peace Conference, clashing with French Premier Georges Clemenceau. After retiring from politics in 1945, he was raised to the peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, but died shortly afterwards. www.portaljuice.com /david_lloyd_george.html   (1257 words)

Reader's Companion to Military History - - Lloyd George, David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) First a lawyer, Lloyd George was elected to the House of Commons from Caernarvon in 1890. At Versailles, Lloyd George put his prodigious energies to winning the peace for Britain, but, although harsher on Germany than the idealistic American president, Woodrow Wilson, neither could moderate France's appetite for retribution (see Versailles, Treaty of). Lloyd George's near-dictatorial postwar ministry failed to exploit his wartime mystique. college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/mh_030400_lloydgeorged.htm   (660 words)

Lady Megan Lloyd George biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) The youngest child of David Lloyd George, she was born in Wales, at Criccieth in Caernarfonshire, in what is now Gwynedd. After her father was raised to the Peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, she was known as the Lady Megan Lloyd George. Throughout the 1940s and 50s Lloyd George campaigned for a Welsh assembly and the creation of a Secretary of State for Wales. lady-megan-lloyd-george.biography.ms   (250 words)

David Lloyd at Fitness Nutrition Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) David Lloyd George, the son of William George and Elizabeth Lloyd, was born in Manchester on 17th... David Lloyd George was born in 1863 and died in 1945. David Lloyd George British prime minister (1916andndash;22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death. www.fitnessnutritionhealth.com /exercise/David-Lloyd.html   (2373 words)

The New York Review of Books: LLOYD GEORGE Lord Annan denounces Lloyd George's private life in the most severe terms—"a womanizer on a Gargantuan scale" who "used to have the typists in the lunch hour" and who, allegedly, finally estranged his own family by his sexual aberrations. The only source referred to is the Second Earl's extraordinary "life" of his father (1960), which is almost worthless as a historical account, even as a record of the Lloyd George household. Neither Lloyd George, the Welsh neo-Populist, nor Churchill, the manqué aristocrat, was an orthodox Liberal. www.nybooks.com /articles/10261   (1005 words)

icWales - Donation boosts Lloyd George statue fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) PLANS to erect a statue of former prime minister David Lloyd George were boosted today when a businessman donated £200,000. Lloyd George became prime minister in 1916 and was Britain's leader during the First World War. Lord Morris, chairman of the trustees of the Lloyd George Statue Appeal, which has been raising money for the project since 1996, said: "This is an exceptional and magnificent gift and we are extremely grateful to Mr Thomas for his generosity. icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15654830%26method=full%26siteid=50082%26headline=donation%2dboosts%2dlloyd%2dgeorge%2dstatue%2dfund-name_page.html   (477 words)

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor: After the War - After the War A general election in 1918 had given Lloyd George and his coalition a substantial... Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor: Early Career - Early Career Elected (1890) to Parliament as a Liberal, the young Lloyd George soon became known as... Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor: Bibliography - Bibliography See his War Memoirs (6 vol., 1933–36; 2 vol., 1943) and Memoirs of the Peace... www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830071.html   (295 words)

Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - David Lloyd George In 1890, Lloyd George, the entered the Commons as a Liberal representing the Welsh Caernarfon Boroughs. After Campbell-Bannerman died, Lloyd George served in Asquith's World War I, coalition cabinet as minister of munitions and as secretary for war. While a reformer, an early architect of social welfare programs and the man who led the country to victory in World War I, the Lloyd George remembered by many Liberals is the one who ousted Asquith in 1916. britannia.com /gov/primes/prime42.html   (687 words)

earl lloyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Lloyd, who was the first Afro-American to play professional basketball, along with longtime cohort Bob Dawson spoke to several elementary-age young ladies at the Dr. Doom Hoop Camp Tuesday night at Pleasant Hill Elementary School. Lloyd broke into pro basketball in 1950, "when some folks said 1950 wasn't cool. Lloyd told the young ladies his favorite mottoes: "Be prepared (Boy Scouts), "Be all you can be (U.S. Army) and "Just do it" (Nike). www.crossville-chronicle.com /Chronicle/Sports/SportsArticles/earlloyd.html   (332 words)

Written biography of David Lloyd George | Life of David Lloyd George The English statesman David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1863-1945), was prime minister from 1916 to 1922. Important for the World War I period are Lloyd George's own War Memoirs (6 vols., 1933-1937) and Cameron Hazlehurst's Politicians at War, July 1914 to May 1915; A Prologue to the Triumph of Lloyd George (1971). Frances Stevenson, Lloyd George: A Diary (1972), provides an interesting account of his life from 1912 on.Rowland, Peter, David Lloyd George: a biography, New York: Macmillan, 1976, 1975.Gilbert, Bentley B., David Lloyd George: a political life, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. www.newessay.com /biographies/David_Lloyd_George-28421.html   (204 words)

Earl Lloyd chosen for Basketball Hall Earl Lloyd, a former Pistons player and coach, was searching for the right words Monday after he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Lloyd became the first fl player in an NBA game when he suited up for the Washington Capitols on Oct. 31, 1950, ahead of Boston's Chuck Cooper, the first fl drafted, and Sweetwater Clifton, the first to sign with an NBA team. In Lloyd's best season as a pro, he averaged 10.2 points and helped the 1955 Syracuse Nationals win the NBA title. www.freep.com /sports/pistons/fame8_20030408.htm   (513 words)

ipedia.com: David Lloyd George Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) David Lloyd George Period in Office: December, 1916 - October, 1922 PM Predecessor: Herbert Asquith PM Successors: Andrew Bonar Law Date of Birth: 17 January 1863 Place of Birth: Manches... David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (January 17, 1863 - March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Considered a pacifist until 1914, Lloyd George changed his stance when World War I broke out, and became the first minister of munitions in 1915 and then war secretary in 1916. www.ipedia.com /david_lloyd_george.html   (1503 words)

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor British prime minister Lloyd George, French prime minister Clemenceau, and US president Woodrow Wilson in Versailles for the signing of the peace treaty with Germany. The peace treaty following the end of World War I was signed between the Allies and Germany on 28 June, mandating German disarmament and war reparations, and establishing the League of Nations. Born in Manchester of Welsh parentage, Lloyd George was brought up in north Wales, became a solicitor, and was member of Parliament for Caernarvon Boroughs from 1890. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004540.html   (428 words)

David Lloyd George --  Encyclopædia Britannica also called (1945) 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, Viscount Gwynedd of Dwyfor British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death. The driving power of the new government was David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer under Herbert Asquith from 1908 to 1916 (see Lloyd George). In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048646   (820 words)

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