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    David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916-1922. He was a Liberal politician most known for his support for Welsh devolution, social reform initiatives, wartime government, participation in the Paris Peace Conference, and negotiating the formation of the Irish Free State. David Lloyd George has been described as "the first son of the people to reach supreme power," and his life exemplifies the shift in leadership from the landed aristocracy of the nineteenth century to the mass democracy of the twentieth.

    EARLY LIFE

    • David Lloyd George was born to Welsh parents, William George and Elizabeth Lloyd, in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, on 17 January 1863. He was raised in Wales from the age of three months, first in Pembrokeshire and later in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd. 
    • When William George died in 1864, Richard Lloyd, the widow's brother, took his sister and three children into the family house in Llanystumdwy, Wales. 
    • Young David learned much of the evangelical morality and the radical ideal from his uncle, a shoemaker by trade, a Baptist preacher, and an active Liberal in politics. 
    • David Lloyd George was educated at Llanystumdwy National School, a local Anglican school, and then by tutors. 
    • George's uncle had a huge influence on him, urging him to pursue a legal profession and run for office.
    • David studied works by Thomas Spence, John Stuart Mill, and Henry George as a young man, as well as pamphlets on land ownership by George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb of the Fabian Society. He was articled to a firm of attorneys in Porthmadog at the age of 16, after being rejected from the Nonconformist ministry because it was unpaid and from teaching because it would have obliged him to join the Church of England.
    • He began publishing papers and giving talks on topics such as land reform, temperanc

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    Lloyd George, according to Winston Churchill after his death, ‘was the greatest Welshman which that unconquerable race has produced since the age of the Tudors’. Yet he was born in England at 5 New York Place, Robert Street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester on 17 January 1863. His parents, William George, a school teacher, and Elizabeth Lloyd, a domestic servant then lady’s companion, moved back to Wales when he was four months old. On his father dying of pneumonia on 7 June 1864, his mother returned to Llanystumdwy, her birthplace, and they lived with her mother and brother, Richard, depending on £50 per annum from William George’s estate and on the family shoemaking business (which was maintained until 1880). Richard Lloyd, like his father, was the unpaid lay pastor for the Baptist sect, the Disciples of Christ, and was the major early influence on David. He was educated at Llanystumdwy school. From July 1878 Lloyd George worked for a solicitor, qualifying as a solicitor himself six years later. In 1885 he set up his own practice, joined by his brother William from mid-1887. His brother’s diligence enabled Lloyd George to enter local politics, and he made his name as a solicitor, lay preacher and temperance lecturer. He was active on behalf of many of the pressure groups which formed a part of Welsh Liberalism: the Liberation Society, the Farmers’ Union and the Anti-Tithe League (being secretary of its South Carnarvonshire branch). He was selected as candidate for Carnarvon Boroughs in January 1889, winning it by eighteen votes in a byelection in April 1890. He held the constituency at every general election from then until he was elevated to the House of Lords in the New Year Honours List, 1945. From 1889 until his death he was an alderman on Carnarvonshire county council. Lloyd George was a backbencher until he entered Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’sgove
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    Early in his political career George flirted with Welsh nationalist and separatist parties. George first became a "minister of parliament" (MP), which is the elected officials in the United Kingdom's House of Commons, on April 10, 1890. He the representative for the Caernarfon Boroughs district of Caernarfon, Wales. He was a member of the Liberal Party. George was a member of the Welsh nationalist Cymru Fydd, which is translate into English as "Young Wales." Before becoming prime minister, Lloyd held a number of important government positions, including: President of the Board of Trade, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary for the State for War in 1916. Lloyd was the primary architect of the National Insurance Act of 1911, which was the first step toward nationalized health insurance in the United Kingdom. Lloyd was also instrumental in raising minimum wage for farmers, licensing of pubs, guaranteed lunches for school children, and pensions for the elderly. These were all part of the "Liberal welfare reforms" of 1906 to 1914, which George and the Liberal Party Championed. George was generally against war on principle and was initially against British involvement in World War I. Once the war began, George became the prime minister by leading a wartime coalition of Liberal Party members and member of the Conservative Party. Other members of the Liberal Party supported Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, who George replaced. Although George was firmly on the leftwing of the political spectrum, he was anti-communist, which is partially why he was sympathetic to the Nazis before World War II. By that time, though, George had largely retired from public service and an entirely new generation were running the United Kingdom. George died of cancer on March 26, 1945 at the age of eighty-two. He was buried in Llanystumdwy, Wales. Although Wales has been part of the United Kingdom since the Mi

    Lloyd George: Britain's Great Radical

    Long before he began to walk “the corridors of power ” in Great Britain, the eminent scientist-novelist Lord Snow came to know many influential Britons. Lloyd George picked him out of a dining room crowd at Antibes because “I thought you had an interesting head.” It was the beginning of a long intimacy, here recounted in one of nine sketches and profiles to be published in the spring by Scribner’s under the title VARIETY OF MEN. Next month the ATLANTIC will print Lord Snow’s recollections of the great mathematician G. H. Hardy.

    By C. P. Snow

    I MET Lloyd George by sheer accident, and the actual manner of it sounds more improbable than anyone would be prepared to invent. I had gone to Antibes for the Christmas of 1937 and was staving at the Hôtel du Cap waiting for a friend to join me. There, in the same hotel, was Lloyd George, in the middle of a family party. I used to watch him taking a morning stroll through the grounds to Eden Roc; his hair streamed in the breeze, his cloak swung with his lively step, he walked like a strong and active man in middle age (he was seventy-three). I watched him also in the dining room. His party had a table, the star table, in the window corner. The room was large and lofty, and Lloyd George’s laughter filled it. From an obscure place beside the opposite wall, I watched him curiously, thinking of all I had heard and read about him.

    On the afternoon of Christmas Day I went for a walk. I was lonely: it was a time in my life when most things were going wrong. As the sun went down, I remember that it was a bright, cold Mediterranean winter evening, with frost glinting blue under the corniche lights.

    When I got back to the hotel, the porter called me: there was a message from Major Gwilym Lloyd George. Would I ring him up? As soon as possible?

    From the porter’s desk I did so. Major Gwilym was saying amiably that his father had noticed I was alone. Would I care to join their pa

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