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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 (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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 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)

  
 Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Lloyd George was a brilliantly eloquent, forceful, and creative statesman, but he was often unscrupulous and opportunistic in his methods and widely mistrusted.
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.
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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 George LLoyd - The Symphonies by Paul Conway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George Lloyd is a prolific opera composer manqué, rather than a prolific symphonist: the intensely lyrical, cantabile nature of much of the writing throughout his twelve symphonies serves to endorse this assertion.
George Lloyd's Sixth Symphony is a model of formal perfection and emotional restraint, demonstrating a refinement of taste occasionally lacking elsewhere in the cycle (such as the codas to the Finales of the Third and Eleventh Symphonies).
George Lloyd has tried this effect previously in the last movement of his Second Symphony where the central theme from the previous Alla marcia is recalled, but in the Ninth, the impression is far more powerful and disturbing, a simple tune being transformed into a haunting memory.
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 David Lloyd George
Lloyd George won the seat by 18 votes and at twenty-seven became the youngest member of the House of Commons.
Lloyd George's dramatic oratory soon brought him to the attention of the leaders of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons.
Lloyd George reacted by touring the country making speeches in working-class areas on behalf of the budget and portraying the nobility as men who were using their privileged position to stop the poor from receiving their old age pensions.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRgeorge.htm   (3913 words)

  
 Megan Lloyd George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lady Megan Arvon Lloyd George (22 April 1902 to 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 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megan_Lloyd_George   (285 words)

  
 George Lloyd
George Lloyd s immediate reaction to the thought of celebrating his 80th birthday was to say that 90 should be the earliest for celebration; "nowadays even nonagenarians are around in thousands".
Lloyd says he never gets it right the first time; he always needs to adjust tempi, rubati and allargandi but he is usually happy with it by the time it gets to the recording, which is, in most cases, the second performance.
George was overwhelmed by the complex with a beautiful new two and a half thousand-seater theatre with pretty green seats, a cinema and a spacious glass-domed entrance.
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 DAVID LLOYD GEORGE - LoveToKnow Article on DAVID LLOYD GEORGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His father, William George, a Welshman of yeoman stock, had left Pembrokeshire for London at an early age and became a school teacher there, and afterwards in Liverpool and Haverfordwest, and then headmaster of an elementary school at Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, where he married the daughter of David Lloyd, a neighboring Baptist minister.
Mrs George's brother, Richard Lloyd, a shoemaker at Llanystumdwy, and pastor of the Campbellite Baptists there, now became her chief support; it was from him that young David obtained his earliest views of practical and political life, and also the means of starting, at the age of fourteen, on the career of a solicitor.
For that year the budget was already settled, and it was introduced by Mr Asquith himself, the ex-chancellor; but Mr Lloyd George earned golden opinions, both at the Treasury and in parliament, by his industry and his handling of the Finance Bill, especially important for its inclusion of Old Age Pensions, in the later stages.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LL/LLOYD_GEORGE_DAVID.htm   (704 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.
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 BBC - History - Wars - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Biography of George L. Lloyd, b. 1839   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GEORGE L., one of the notable pioneers of Clark County, still surviving, whose early life was crowded with interesting experiences, was born in Lake County, Ohio, fifteen miles east of Cleveland, Aug. 9, 1839.
George L. Lloyd in 1859, at the age of 20 years, joined a party of 37 persons who left Geneva, Ohio, for the gold fields of Denver, Colo. The far west was wilder then than it is today, and the journey-especially the overland route was fraught with many dangers.
Lloyd's present fine residence in Neillsville was built in 1895 and stands on a tract of forty acres on the edge of the city.
www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/clark/bios1/129.htm   (915 words)

  
 David Lloyd George Knew My Grandmother   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lloyd George then wrote that an insider-trading scandal over Marconi shares was about to break, and he needed her during that crisis.
Lloyd George's daughter Megan became a bitter enemy when she discovered that her former tutor was having an affair with her father, but even she admitted that being with Frances was "like sinking your feet into a thick pile carpet into which you sank your feet gratefully."
Lloyd George was faithful to neither his wife nor his mistress, but Frances nonetheless kept her position with him, always putting his interests first -- even above those of the child she eventually chose to bear him at the age of 40.
historynet.com /bh/bllloydgeorge   (699 words)

  
 Sources on David Lloyd George
Lloyd George was also very concerned with the rise of communism in Russia and he feared that it might spread to western Europe – Germany should be left as a barrier to resist the expected spread of communism.
Lloyd George did not want Germany treated with lenience but he knew that Germany would be the only country in central Europe that could stop the spread of communism if it burst over the frontiers of Russia.
Lloyd George was inclined towards leniency since he felt that to leave an embittered Germany would be to store up problems for the future, as the Germans would wish to exact retribution.
www.johndclare.net /ToV3_lloyd_george_sources.htm   (1885 words)

  
 David Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
David Lloyd George qualified as a solicitor but in 1890 he was elected to parliament as a representative of the Liberal Party.
Lloyd George was an energetic minister and he soon had shells and guns pouring out of British factories.
Lloyd George did not want the prime minister to be the chairman of such a community because he thought that Asquith was not a good war leader.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWgeorge.htm   (463 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Bio: David Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
David Lloyd George was born in Manchester, England on 17-Jan-1863.
In 1878 David Lloyd George was apprenticed to a non-trial lawyer and he opened his own law practice in 1884.
After the coalition fell in Oct-1922 Lloyd George was united again with the Asquithian liberals and later succeeded Asquith as a Liberal party leader.
www.worldwar1.com /bioedlg.htm   (270 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 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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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 PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson | People
It was Lloyd George who served to balance Wilson's Fourteen Points against the harsh demands of French premier Georges Clemenceau and who, with his "conference diplomacy," did much to shape the final version of the peace treaty.
Lloyd George's election to Parliament from Caernarvon Boroughs in 1890 established him in politics.
Lloyd George was reluctant at first to see Great Britain join the conflict of World War I. But as minister of munitions, then as minister of war, he soon advocated a fierce, swift offensive against Germany.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_george.html   (454 words)

  
 Judge Lloyd D. George
Judge George's behavior on the bench has raised serious questions concerning his role as a federal judge and exhibits a pattern of behavior that indicates a growing bias against Hispanics and minorities as well as an extremely blatant courtroom bias against pro se litigants.
Judge George often renders dishonest decisions that he knows to be devoid of factual or legal basis and is engaging in impeachable conduct.
Judge George is known for manipulating the guidelines to create draconian sentences, which are handed down regularly on non-violent offenders simply because of their origin or color of skin.
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 Manufacturer's Representatives - Automotive Industry: Lloyd George and Associates, Inc.
Lloyd George and Associates, Incorporated, began life in the late 40's as the Andrew Sallade Agency.
Lloyd George, the father of the current President and majority owner, resigned his position as Buyer with Howell Electric Motors in 1956 to join Andy as an outside salesman, specializing in the automotive industry.
In 1974, the company was incorporated, and the name changed to Lloyd George and Associates, Inc. In 1981, upon ascending to the position of Vice President after 8 years on the road, Bud began buying out his father, and is today the majority stockholder.
www.lgeorge.com /?page=34   (617 words)

  
 The Digital Mirror - Archives - David Lloyd George, 1886 Diary (William George papers 6)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lloyd George was born in Manchester in 1863 and brought up in Llanystumdwy by his widowed mother.
Lloyd George is remembered mainly for the part he played in the First World War, 1914-1918.
This diary is from a collection of the papers of William George, David Lloyd George's brother, which was purchased by the library in 1989.
www.llgc.org.uk /drych/drych_s037.htm   (337 words)

  
 Lloyd George at the Conference
As soon as the League Covenant was agreed, however, Lloyd George appointed Balfour (a Conservative who opposed the League) to be the British representative on the Council – and Balfour saw to it that the League never interfered with British freedom of action.
Now it was Wilson who came under pressure from Lloyd George and, on 5 April, Wilson agreed to a German ‘War Guilt’ clause stating that Germany was responsible for causing ‘all the loss and damage of the war’.
Lloyd George and Clemenceau realised what the War Guilt clause meant: since he accepted that Germany was responsible for all the damage, Wilson would also have to accept that Germany ought to pay for it.
www.johndclare.net /ToV3_lloyd_george_negotiating.htm   (1102 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.
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