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  Encyclopedia: David Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lloyd George was also a bitter opponent of Welsh nationalism.
In 1929 Lloyd George became Father of the House, the longest serving member of the Commons.
Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, (4 December 1894 - 1967) was a British politician and cabinet minister.
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 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.
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 winston churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As President of the Board of Trade he pursued radical social reforms in conjunction with David Lloyd George, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In December 1916, Asquith fell and was replaced by Lloyd George, however the time was thought to not yet be right to risk the Conservatives' wrath by bringing Churchill back into government.
September 1953: Florence Horsbrugh, the Minister of Education, Sir Thomas Dugdale, the Minister of Agriculture, and Gwilym Lloyd George, the Minister of Food, enter the cabinet.
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 Collections - The Welsh Political Archive -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Library's extensive Lloyd George archives have been further enriched by the recent acquisition from the third Viscount Tenby of a small group of papers relating to his father Gwilym Lloyd-George (1894-1967) and his grandfather David Lloyd George (1863-1945).
Lloyd George had enjoyed a warm rapport with Prince Edward ever since his investiture as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1911.
There is, too, a group of speech notes and correspondence of Sir Goronwy Owen, Liberal MP for Caernarfonshire, 1923-45, who married a sister-in-law of Gwilym Lloyd-George, and who became one of the Lloyd George family group of MPs in the 1930s.
www.llgc.org.uk /lc/awg_s_cylch23.htm   (2229 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Lloyd George's garden revamped
The museum also features a Victorian schoolroom that is dedicated to Lloyd George's life and his riverside grave can be seen alongside the river Dwyfor.
In 1890, Lloyd George, entered the Commons as a Liberal representing the Caernarfon boroughs.
In the Asquith government (1908-15) Lloyd George was chancellor of the Exchequer and the man behind the infamous "people's budget" of 1909.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/north_west/3622130.stm   (487 words)

  
 Churchill in the 21st Century - The Churchill Centre
George VI initially disapproved of Churchill, not only over WSC's support for his elder brother, but because WSC was opposed to Chamberlain, whom the King admired, along with Chamberlain's policies.
In 1945 George VI was as dismayed to lose him again as he had been to appoint him in 1940.
Gwilym Lloyd George [the Food Minister] said it was impossible at that time.
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 Rosslyn Chapel
The Presbytery records of Dalkeith reveal that in 1589 William Knox, brother of John Knox and minister of Cockpen, was censured 'for baptizing the Laird of Rosling's bairne' in Rosslyn Chapel, which was described as a 'house and monument of idolatrie, and not ane place appointit for teiching the word and ministratioun of ye sacrementis'.
This Oliver St Clair was repeatedly warned to destroy the altars in the Chapel and in1592 was summoned to appear before the General Assembly and threatened with excommunication if the altars remained standing after August 17th, 1592.
On August 31st, the same George Ramsay reported that 'the altars of Roslene were haille demolishit'.
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 The Churchill Papers: A catalogue
Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the King for the carrying of the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which the King hopes will be passed in the present parliamentary session.
Telegram from King George V (Sandringham) to WSC thanking him for his report of the riots [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan] Wales and hoping that the news that horses have been lost in the mines is not true.
Copy of a letter from [a Home Office Official] to David Lloyd George concerning payment for the expenses of the [Metropolitan] Police [sent to the riots at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales] including discussion of legal proceedings and the likelihood that a case would be lost; retrospective legislation; and a grant from the Treasury.
www-archives.chu.cam.ac.uk /perl/search?add_text=UNESCO::Coal   (4097 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 | 1952: Tea rationing to end
News of the end of tea rationing means Britons will soon be able to enjoy unlimited "cuppas" for the first time in 12 years.
During a speech in Newcastle the Minister of Food, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, said rationing and price controls on tea would be lifted on Sunday.
Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd-George was the son of former Prime Minister David Lloyd-George.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_3122000/3122485.stm   (400 words)

  
 Winston Spencer Churchill Biography
In Decembet 1916, Asquith fell and was replaced by Lloyd George, however the time was thought to not yet be right to risk the Conservatives' wrath by bringing Churchill back into government.
She maintained that Clementine's father was Capt. William George "Bay" Middleton, a noted horseman.
But Clementine Churchill's biographer Joan Hardwick has surmised that all Lady Blanche's "Hozier" children were actually fathered by her sister Clementine's husband, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (1837-1916, better known as a grandfather of the infamous Mitford sisters of the 1920s).
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 Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lady Blanche was well-known for sharing her favours and was eventually divorced as a result.
She maintained that Clementine's father was [[Bay MiddletonCapt. William George "Bay" Middleton]], a noted horseman.
*September 1953: [[Florence Horsbrugh]], the Minister of Education, Sir [[Thomas Dugdale]], the Minister of Agriculture, and [[Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount TenbyGwilym Lloyd George]], the Minister of Food, enter the cabinet.
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 Ruth Ellis: The Last to Hang
At the third hearing, her ex-husband George appeared in the court foyer, wearing a camel hair overcoat, hands flapping and very drunk, demanding that the trial be stopped.
Yule was a strong and dynamic radical for capital punishment; her near brush with death outside the Magdala encouraged her to actively fight any movement to reprieve Ruth and in this she was extremely successful.
George Rogers; he believed his mother had gone to Italy to model swimwear.
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 Which famous Welsh politicians share your roots - leaders with vision like David Lloyd George, Leo Abse, Samuel Evans ...
Was Attorney General in the Lloyd George government.
By John Grigg The outbreak of the European war altered the whole course of Lloyd George's life and as Minister of Munitions, he carried through what was almost another Industrial Revolution - and a social one as well.
However his imaginative views on strategy brought him into conflict with professional warlords, and his advocacy of conscription outraged many of his liberal colleagues.
www.famouswelsh.com /05_politics/politics4.html   (277 words)

  
 DAVID LLOYD GEORGE EXHIBITION 1863-1945 March 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After leaving the Premiership and government Lloyd George attempted to rebuild the Liberal Party.
Though it re-united the bitter personal clash between Lloyd George's people and Asquith's people remained, and focused very often on the personal political fund amassed by Lloyd George.
By the General Election of 1931 he had lost the support of the majority of the Liberal Party and he was left as the leader of a group of four "family" members - himself, Megan (his daughter), Gwilym (his son) and Goronwy Owen (Gwilym's brother-in-law).
www.llgc.org.uk /ardd/dlgeorge/dlg0065.htm   (183 words)

  
 Winston Churchill - Biocrawler definition:Winston Churchill - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In December 1916, Asquith and the Conservative Party was ousted out of power and was replaced by Lloyd George and the now ruling Liberal Party.
As a Cabinet minister for part of the First World War and as Prime Minister for nearly all of the Second, Churchill had unique access to official documents, military plans, official secrets and correspondence between world leaders.
After the First War, when there were few rules governing these documents, Churchill simply took many of them with him when he left office, and used them freely in his books - as did other wartime politicians such as David Lloyd George.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Winston_Churchill   (8756 words)

  
 Internet Lodge
He writes: 'King George I entered London most magnificently on 20th September 1714 and after the rebellion was over AD 1716 the few lodges at London finding themselves neglected by Sir Christopher Wren thought fit to cement under a Grand Master as the centre of union and harmony'.
As befits somebody who wrote a Latin elegy for George I, Anderson takes every opportunity to present the prosperous state of freemasonry as reflecting the flourishing state of Britain under the rule of the 'Saxon kings', as he calls them.
The close relationship of this lodge to the liberal welsh establishment was reflected in the membership of Gwilym Lloyd George, the Prime Minister's son.
internet.lodge.org.uk /library/res-britishproblem.php   (9195 words)

  
 Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Characters - Story Summaries M
Doyle and Darnell visit the medium, Ispenska, who claims she was in a trance and was not aware of events going on, and suggests another séance.
Lloyd George's secretary hears someone on the phone in the Prime Minister's private office, later he finds a strange pack of cards in a briefcase in the same office.
Lloyd George recieves a letter from the kidnappers demanding he concede the war to the Germans.
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 4th July : Today's Trivia : Ashes Walk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Minister of Fuel and Power, Geoffrey Lloyd, burned a large replica of a ration book at an open meeting in his constituency.
But the Minister of Food, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, told a meeting at Bebington in Cheshire he would keep his as a souvenir and praised all those traders and organisations that had co-operated with the rationing system.
For the first time since the war began in 1939 London's Smithfield Market opened at midnight instead of 0600 and meat sellers were doing a roaring trade.
www.asheswalk.com /trivia/04-06   (335 words)

  
 Guardian | Arrogance and populism
My guess is that it will turn out all right as long as David Blunkett is kept at arm's length.
No home secretary in living memory - not Michael Howard, Henry Brooke or Gwilym Lloyd George - has a worse record for attempting to interfere with the judicial process.
Arrogance has combined with populism to make Blunkett attack every judgment with which he disagrees.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4696584-103677,00.html   (789 words)

  
 Derick Heathcoat Amory - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In October 1954 the Ministry merged with the Ministry of Food still in command of Heathcoat-Amory.
Gwilym Lloyd George had previously been in charge of Food.
He remained in the post until he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958, under Harold Macmillan.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Viscount_Amory   (186 words)

  
 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1898) 1846 - 1852 Henry George Grey, Earl Grey (b.
1763) 1763 - 1765 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax (s.a.) 1765 - 1766 Henry Seymour Conway (s.a.) 1766 Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Lennox (b.
1883) 1868 - 1873 George Robinson, Earl of Ripon (from 1871, George Robinson, Marquess of Ripon) (b.
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 Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Ellis appeal is open and shut case - of futility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There can’t be more than a handful of people left in the country who think otherwise.
Even in 1955, most people felt uneasy when the then Home Secretary, Gwilym Lloyd-George, refused to grant her a reprieve from the executioner.
Her death that year cast a long shadow over even the most ardent supporters of the death penalty.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1048312003   (1227 words)

  
 Random Fate: Quotes Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Although I have enjoyed the Star Wars movies, I am far from thinking that George Lucas is a deep thinker, nor do I feel he is one of the great artists of our age.
His body language in the first debate (which I have already written on) shows how poorly controlled his temper is and how he cannot accept being challenged.
To those who are unwavering in their support of George W. Bush, I need you to enlighten me on how a man who cannot think of any mistakes he has made can ever learn, can ever grow, can somehow magically always do the right thing.
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 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 30 Jun 1992
Winnick), it may be of assistance if I point out that neither in 1956 or 1958 was Mr.
On the first occasion, it was Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and on the second occasion it was Gwilym Lloyd-George.
Perhaps, if he would like to intervene again, he will tell me how the boundaries in London were examined by previous commissions.
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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The origin of the term prime minister and the question to whom it should originally be applied have long been issues of scholarly and political debate.
Although the term was used as early as the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), it acquired wider currency during the reign of George II (1727-1760), when it began to be used as a term of reproach toward Sir Robert Walpole.
It was not until early 20th century when the Prime Minister's precedence in England was established 10 Dec 1905 that placed the Prime Minister, mentioned as such, in the order of precedence in England immediately after the Archbishop of York.
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 icNorthWales - I won't give up fight to clear Ruth
Mrs Jakubait, 83, says her sister had been involved in several violent relationships and there was a strong case to be made for provocation.
More than 50,000 people signed a petition calling for a reprieve, and even though, on the morning before her execution, Ellis made a statement implicating her other lover, Desmond Cussen, the then Home Secretary, Gwilym Lloyd George, refused to halt the execution.
Tomorrow, in the Appeal Court, Mrs Jakubait's solicitor, Cardiff-based Bernard de Maid, will argue that Ellis was ill at the time, suffering from post-traumatic stress dis-order, but the Crown is expected to contest the appeal.
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 Honorary Graduates By Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Y Gwir Anrh / The Rt Hon David Lloyd George, yr Iarll Lloyd George o Ddwyfor 1af / 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor LLD (ob.
Y Fonesig / Dame Margaret Lloyd George LLD (ob.
Y Gwir Anrh / The Rt Hon Gwilym Lloyd George, yr Is-iarll Tenby o Bulford 1af / 1st Viscount Tenby of Bulford LLD (ob.
www.wales.ac.uk /newpages/EXTERNAL/E9926.asp   (6062 words)

  
 GazzaBlog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Michael Foot Leader of the Labour Party, Secretary of state for Employment.
David Lloyd George Former Liberal MP and Prime Minister (The one that knew my father!)
Gwilym Lloyd George Minister in British parliament through and after WWII
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