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  David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George (January 17, 1863 - March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal Party 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.
Lloyd George began to feel the weight of the coalition with the Conservatives after the war.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ll/Lloyd_George.html   (1143 words)

  
 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.
After her father was raised to the Peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, she was known as Lady Megan Lloyd George.
From 1936 to 1956, Lady Megan was the mistress of Philip Noel-Baker, a Labour MP and peace campaigner.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megan_Lloyd_George   (400 words)

  
 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.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/i-m/lloydgeorge.html   (2576 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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Lloyd George on the walls of peasants' houses in the remotest villages of Russia.
Lloyd George's most constant companion although that gentleman is a far better creature than the cause of his fortunes; and one doubts if Lord Beaconsfield would have trusted even the least frank of his private negotiations to some of the men who enjoy the Prime Minister's political confidence.
Lloyd George is "the man who won the war," he who did nothing to prepare for it, and suggested some things that might have made it difficult to be won; while Lord Haldane, who did prepare for it, and whose work did save the whole world, is cast out of office.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/3/0/15306/15306-8.txt   (18954 words)

  
 Lady Megan Lloyd George / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Megan Lloyd George was not only the first of them- she also remains the longest serving and the only one to become Deputy Leader of her party.
As the daughter of the former Prime Minister and the dominant figure in Welsh politics, her selection to fight the then safe Liberal seat of Anglesey in 1929 was a matter of some controversy.
Megan’s brother Gwilym was already an M.P and it seemed to some that David Lloyd George was intent on creating his own dynastic power base.
www.100welshheroes.com /en/biography/meganlloydgeorge   (413 words)

  
 Welsh People
George Jones, son of Welsh immigrants from Llanwyddelan, Powys.
David Lloyd George In 1890, at the age of 27, he became MP for Caernarfon Boroughs.
making the comment that "Britain reserves the right to bomb niggers." In 1902 Lloyd George was giving his point of view to Parliament around the possibility of the UK government signing a treaty that prohibited the use of air power to kill civilians in any future wars.
members.tripod.com /~BDaugherty/cymru/people.html   (2834 words)

  
 Megan Lloyd George MP, Aneurin Bevan MP and local officials at the opening of the first new post-war council house at ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Megan Lloyd George MP, Aneurin Bevan MP and local officials at the opening of the first new post-war council house at Menai Bridge, 1948 :: Gathering the Jewels
Megan Lloyd George MP, Aneurin Bevan MP and local officials at the opening of the first new post-war council house at Menai Bridge, 1948
Megan Lloyd George (1902-66) was the first Welsh woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament.
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 Chief Dan George
Chief Dan George was born Tes-wah-no (also known as Dan Slaholt) to a tribal chief on Burrard Reserve No.3 on Vancouver Island.
His last name was changed to George when he entered a mission boarding school at the age of 5, where the use of his native language was discouraged, if not forbidden.
After spending much of his early life as a longshoreman, a construction worker, and a school bus driver, Chief Dan George auditioned for the role of Old Antoine on "Cariboo Country" (1960), a CBC television series, and was offered the part.
www.canadianactors.info /chief_dan_george_bio_info.htm   (201 words)

  
 Welsh History
At the turn of the century, Merthyr Tydfil, a town based primarily on iron-working and with a population of 7.000, is considered by some sources to be far and away the largest town in Wales,.
Lloyd George took over leadership of the movement but other Welsh MP's did not support him.
Megan Lloyd George (Liberal, Anglesey) becomes the first woman to represent a Welsh constituency - up until 1993, there have been three others, one of the worst records in Europe.
bdaugherty.tripod.com /cymru/history.html   (4539 words)

  
 Immigration Quotas, Ellis Island and Other Events of 1923 part 3
The George Washington with her tonnage of 25,596 gross tons, is another to come here and dock Friday, and she is the largest ever to visit Portland.
David Lloyd George is on the ocean homeward bound.
He quoted Lloyd George, with whom he discussed the exodus of young Britons to the United States, as having said: “Britain is sending you the flower of British manhood.
www.theshipslist.com /drydock/1923c.htm   (12941 words)

  
 Ymgyrchu! Megan Lloyd George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Megan Lloyd George yn cyflwyno deiseb Senedd i Gymru i Goronwy Roberts yn Nolgellau yn 1956.
Megan Lloyd George presenting the Parliament for Wales petition to Goronwy Roberts at Dolgellau in 1956.
Megan Lloyd George presentando la campaña 'Parlamento para Gales' a Goronwy Roberts en Dolgellau, 1956.
www.llgc.org.uk /ymgyrchu/Datganoli/SeneddiGymru/DASGX4.htm   (58 words)

  
 TIME.com: Hail! Caesar -- Oct. 15, 1923 -- Page 1
Ex-Premier David Lloyd George, accompanied by Dame Lloyd George and Miss Megan Lloyd George, arrived in the U. for the first time in his life.
George's simple eloquence by the volume and intensity of their welcome—thousands of cheering citizens lined the streets of Manhattan to do homage to Britain's War-time Premier, one of the Big Four who directed the " War for Peace" after the 1918 armistices.
His speech was excellent in that it gave a good idea of the magnitude of the great man's mind; it was restrained and sober in that it avoided exaggeration and yet paid admirable tribute to a man whose greatness cannot fairly be contested even by his greatest enemies.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,723090,00.html   (646 words)

  
 Lloyd Bochner Bio Info
From All Movie Guide: After racking up impressive stage credits in Canada and the U.S., actor Lloyd Bochner familiarized himself with American televiewers in the supporting role of Captain Nicholas Lacey in the prime-time TV serial One Man's Family (1952).
By far, Bochner's most memorable assignment was the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man," as the scientist who learns all too late that "It's a cookbook!"; nearly 30 years later, he parodied this deathless moment in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991).
Lloyd Bochner is the father of Emmy-winning actor Hart Bochner.
www.canadianactors.info /lloyd_bochner_bio_info.htm   (190 words)

  
 tbs.com - The Gum
Uncomfortable about sitting with Lloyd at the theater, Elaine claims Jerry forgot his glasses and asks to be put in the front row.
Though upset with the noises now coming from his car, George is excited when Deena suggests they get together --- until discovering she thinks he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
And listening to George blame everyone from her father to a coffee shop cashier for a fire that destroyed his car only reinforces the belief.
www.tbs.com /stories/story/0,,69183,00.html   (248 words)

  
 Traveling Through American History - 18th Century - FCPL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amanda joins her brother George in an event that is still celebrated each May in modern Chester Town.
After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement Of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.
Events in the history of the United States, from George Washington's presidency through the beginning of the space program, are related to the experiences of one family.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov /library/reading/elem/PicHistorychron18th.htm   (925 words)

  
 Liberal Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.
Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates - this "coupon" as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.
Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)   (3921 words)

  
 Office politics Spectator, The - Find Articles
'The Lloyd George Papers' drew on letters and documents held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth and Fishlock acknowledged that not everyone regards the former Liberal prime minister as the towering political figure his admirers would claim.
Graham Jones, the head of archives at the library, told Fishlock that Lloyd George's father died when he was quite young and he regarded his uncle Richard Lloyd, a Liberal and a lay preacher, as his adoptive father.
Perhaps on the whole that is a good thing.' Lloyd George's affair with Frances Stevenson began 25 years into his marriage after she became his daughter Megan's governess and then his secretary.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200604/ai_n16523113   (742 words)

  
 Troma Entertainment
Lloyd Kaufman and 2006 Academy Award®-winning director of the film CRASH, Paul Haggis, discuss the social impact films like Back Road Diner have generated to raise civil rights awareness.
Lloyd, Pat Kaufman, and actor, writer, drag legend, and director of A Very Serious Person, Charles Busch strut their stuff at the Tribeca Film Fest in May 2006.
Lloyd Kaufman, in this 2001 photo, reminds Peter Jackson that, without Troma to influence him, Jackson would not be a billionaire film mogul who owns half of the Eastern Hemisphere.
www.troma.com /tromaworld   (1613 words)

  
 Concerning the Name Megan
Lloyd-George named his daughter Megan, and this is the first example of the name recorded in the standard references [1, 2].
It is worth noting that Lloyd-George was Welsh; Megan may well have been in informal use in Wales from the mid-16th century onward and simply escaped recognition by researchers.
These are the only variants of Megan which have been supported as pre-1600 names.
www.medievalscotland.org /problem/names/megan.shtml   (589 words)

  
 GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Wales History Timeline - 1964-1974 AD
The subsequent filling of the position by party hacks with no interest in Wales, merely using the post as a rung on the ladder to advancement, has not diminished the acknowledgement that Wales needed its own Secretary of State to address its own particular concerns.
At Carmarthen, in the election caused by the death of Lady Megan Lloyd George, the popular Gwynfor Evans of Plaid gained a majority over the Labour candidate that put him in Parliament.
In 191l, the spectacle came to the attention of the world when movie newsreels and radio broadcasts showed the ceremonies that invested the future Edward VIII at Caernarfon under the shrewd orchestration of Lloyd George.
www.britannia.com /celtic/wales/timeline/tl20.html   (856 words)

  
 tbs.com - The Non-Fat Yogurt
Embarrassed when Lloyd calls attention to a nudge he gives Jerry, George defends himself by claiming that an accident has caused his elbow to move involuntarily.
Then, as George complains that the doctor's appointment was made just to embarrass him, Elaine announces that she is going to be dating Lloyd.
As Jerry learns that the yogurt does have fat in it after all, George is accused by the doctor of lying about his injury.
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 Messiah College: News
The illustration "Community at Work," by Megan Lloyd-Thompson of Carlisle, is on display at Murray Library on the Messiah College campus.
During the dedication, Carlisle artist Megan Lloyd-Thompson said a few words about her two paintings, “Country and Townscape” and “Community at Work,” illustrations which were included in the book “Pioneer Church” by Carolyn Otto.
Lloyd-Thompson’s paintings are just two of the five additions to the Engle Collection during the past year, representing a 50 percent increase in the collection’s holdings.
www.messiah.edu /news/2005/MC-103-05.html   (659 words)

  
 Reviews
Indeed Churchill was not very grateful, since in May 1940 he only offered him a junior ministerial post, which he refused, and “he accordingly continued to develop a niche as a freelance critic of the government, aiming to eradicate complacency and to spur ministers on to greater efforts” [p.
And the dubious prospect of having the daughters of Asquith [Lady Violet Bonham-Carter] and Lloyd George [Megan Lloyd George] in the Parliamentary Liberal Party at the same time had vanished: Clem had effectively sailed safely between the Liberal Scylla and Charybdis.
The Index is too succinct for names like Lloyd George, since we do not have a list of classified themes (Lloyd George and x.; Lloyd George and y.), but a simple (long) succession of page numbers.
www.cercles.com /review/r18/wyburn.htm   (1608 words)

  
 THE MYSTERY READER reviews:The Case of the 2nd Seance by Sam McCarver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As the anniversary of his daughter’s death approaches, Britain’s Prime Minister David Lloyd George has strong dreams about her as he usually does at this time.
Not wanting to contact Scotland Yard, George asks Conan Doyle for his help, and he turns to Professor John Darnell, an investigator who has a knack for disproving paranormal events and finding the truth in them.
A ransom note stating that Megan will be released if George agrees to the Germans’ peace proposal to end World War I helps narrow down the field of suspects, yet it still seems to take the team of investigators quite awhile to locate Megan, given their combined expertise.
www.themysteryreader.com /mccarver-seance.html   (410 words)

  
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Marshall Lloyd Nice to hear from you, I am descendant of Francois Phaneuf & Marie-Anne Chevalier.My father Mael Phaneuf is the youngest son of Francois brother to Maxime.
To: Marshall Lloyd Date: Tuesday - January 16, 2001 2:38 PM Subject: Siglers in 1910 OH census Mime.822 (1950 bytes) [View] [Save As] Dear Marshall: It is always nice to hear from you.
Lloyd- I have been researching my husband's grandmother PEARL PHANEUFF born 1901 in Michigan & married Thomas Alexander Green either in the US or Canada.
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 Guide to all the weird and wonderful British Political Parties
The Liberal Party was in office for much of the late nineteenth century under Gladstone but his adoption of Irish home rule led to a split; a second split occurred between supporters of Asquith and Lloyd George from 1916.
Lloyd George (Carnarvon District, 1918) - 13,993 votes, 92.7%.
The first seat was won in a 1966 byelection in Carmarthen after the death of Lady Megan Lloyd George; the winner was Gwynfor Evans who had President of Plaid Cymru since 1945.
www.angelfire.com /apes/burning-icicles/british_politics.html   (6769 words)

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