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  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.
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 BBC - History - David Lloyd George (1863-1945)
Lloyd George was one of the great reforming British chancellors of the 20th century and prime minister from 1916 to 1922.
David Lloyd George was born in Manchester on 17 January 1863, son of a schoolmaster.
Lloyd George's achievements in the last two years of the war included persuading the Royal Navy to introduce the convoy system and the unification of the Allied military command under the French general Ferdinand Foch.
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 Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor - MSN Encarta
Born of Welsh parentage in Manchester, Lloyd George was raised, after the early death of his father, by his mother and her shoemaker brother, Richard Lloyd, in Caernarvonshire.
Lloyd George was a prominent Welsh Nonconformist Radical in the 1890s, advocating land and educational reforms, temperance, and disestablishment of the Welsh church.
Lloyd George's speeches condemning the peers were notably vitriolic; one given at Limehouse in the East End of London even resulted in the term “limehouse” entering the English language, denoting an abusive and demagogic speech.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor -> After the War A general election in 1918 had given Lloyd George and his coalition a substantial majority, but he was heavily dependent on Conservative support.
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfordoo´ēvôr, 1863-1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction.
Lloyd George was a brilliantly eloquent, forceful, and creative statesman, but he was often unscrupulous and opportunistic in his methods and widely mistrusted.
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 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.
In 1922 the Chanak crisis occurred, in which Lloyd George delivered an ultimatum to the Turks, who, having seized Smyrna from the Greeks, were poised to strike across the neutralized Straits zone.
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.
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 David Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 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.
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 Channel 4 - History - David Lloyd George
Lloyd George was himself an early supporter of women’s suffrage, but as part of the government was often heckled by the militant campaigners known as the suffragettes, who belonged to the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).
Lloyd George was re-elected as an MP after the war, but with the Liberal majority in Parliament much reduced, he had to join with the Conservatives to create another coalition government.
David Lloyd George is remembered as a skilled war leader and negotiator – he was known as the ‘Welsh wizard’ – but his greatest achievement was probably the programme of social reform that he introduced in the years 1908-11.
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 David Lloyd George
Lloyd George and Isaacs denied, in somewhat ambiguous language, any transactions in the shares of "the Marconi company," a denial that technically referred only to the British company but was generally assumed to cover the American as well.
Lloyd George possessed eloquence; extraordinary charm and persuasiveness; a capacity to see the heart of problems whose complexity baffled lesser men; a profound sympathy with oppressed classes and races; and a genuine hatred of those who abused power, whether based on wealth or caste or military might.
Lloyd George, for all his greatness, aroused in many persons a profound sense of mistrust, and it was in the upper-middle class, represented in politics by Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain, that he inspired the most acute misgivings.
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 David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George was the longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 20th century, before becoming Prime Minister in 1916.
Lloyd George was acclaimed as the man who had won the war, and in 1918 the coalition won a huge majority.
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.
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 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.
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 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor David Lloyd George - Encyclopedia.com
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, 1863-1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction.
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.
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 Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor — Infoplease.com
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...
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...
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 Wikinfo | David Lloyd George
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.
Considered a pacifist until 1914, Lloyd George changed his stance when World War I broke out, and became first minister of munitions in 1915 and then war secretary in 1916.
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.
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 Quotes-of-wisdom.eu | Biography of David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations through World War I and the postwar settlement as the Liberal Party Prime Minister, 1916-1922.
Lloyd George wanted to punish Germany politically and economically for devastating Europe during the war, but did not want to utterly destroy the German economy and political system the way Clemenceau and many other people of France wanted to do with their demand for massive reparations.
In early 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor and Viscount Gwynedd, of Dwyfor in the County of Caernarvonshire.
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 W. R. P. George - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
George, like his father a solicitor with chambers in Porthmadog (even at the age of 94 he was still practising at William George and Son - his father carried on until 101), wrote two valuable accounts of his famous uncle: The Making of Lloyd George (1976) and Lloyd George: backbencher (1983).
It presents a picture of the MP in his slippers, as it were, but also as the angry, ambitious, silver-tongued and frustrated Liberal hungry for power, and attempts to dispel, not altogether convincingly, some of the myths which have accumulated around his private life.
For all his familial piety, W. George turned his back on the Liberal Party early in his career and became an active member of Plaid Cymru, which he saw as the heir to the radical tradition which his father, uncle and cousin Megan Lloyd George had served in their own ways.
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 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.
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 S4C - Cerdded Y Llinell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Although Lloyd George became Prime Minister as a consequence (on 7 December 1916), the episode split the Liberal party.
Lloyd George was one of the prime architects of the Treaty of Versailles, working hard to find a compromise that would be acceptable to all parties, but he later concluded that the Treaty was a failure, which would lead to a new war within 20 years.
With the support of the Conservatives, Lloyd George remained prime-minister until 1922, and was one of the prime negotiators of the agreement that led to the formation of the Irish Free State - another set of compromises that would cause as many problems as it solved.
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 LLOYD GEORGE, David @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
On 5 Dec 1916 both Asquith and Lloyd George resigned and Bonar Law was asked to form a government, but declined as Asquith refused to serve under him.
Lloyd George transformed the national war effort not only with his energy and powers of communication but also by bringing in business men to improve efficiency and by revolutionizing the cabinet system and its secretariat.
Lloyd George formed his second coalition government (14 Dec 1918 - 19 Oct 1922) and spent much of the next six months negotiating the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28 Jun 1919 and ratified on 10 Jan 1920.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor
The title Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1945 for David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Gwynedd, of Dwyfor in the County of Caernarvon.
Their use in the titles was prior to their revival in 1974 for a local government county and district, respectively.
Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (b.
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 Dwyfor:
Dwyfor was one of the five local government districts of Gwynedd, Wales from 1974 to 1996, covering the Lleyn peninsula.
Dwyfor was notable for being the last stronghold of the Sabbatarian temperance movement in Wales.
Under the terms of the Licensing Act 1961, local referenda prevented the opening of public houses on Sundays until 1982, and a further referendum (on a 9% turnout) reimposed Sunday closing between 1989 and 1996.
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 AllRefer.com - Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Information
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.
A pioneer of social reform and the welfare state, as chancellor of the Exchequer 1908–15 he introduced old-age pensions in 1908 and health and unemployment insurance in 1911.
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.
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 David Lloyd George biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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.
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 Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George Of Dwyfor
A pioneer of social reform and the welfare state, as chancellor of the Exchequer 1908–15 he introduced old-age pensions in 1908 and health and unemployment insurance in 1911.
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.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers
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.
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Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, British And Irish History, Biographies
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor[dOO´EvOr] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction.
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 Lambton John George 1st Earl of Durham - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lambton, John George, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840), British statesman, born in London and educated at Eton College.
British statesman John George Lambton, 1st earl of Durham, became governor-general of Canada in 1838.
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor : pictures
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 Megan Lloyd George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lady Megan Lloyd George CH (22 April 1902–14 May 1966) was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.
The youngest child of David Lloyd George, she was born Megan Arvon George 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 Lady Megan Lloyd George.
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