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David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, for social-reform policies, for his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and for negotiating the establishment of the Irish Free State.
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politics · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 · politician · diplomat · solicitor · civil servant · writer · official · jurist · head of government · author · member of parliament · also David Lloyd George, David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, George David Lloyd, George Lloyd, Earl Lloyd-George, Lord Lloyd-George
Born 17 January 1863 · Died 26 March 1945 · Q134982
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2026· 8 entries
“He was confronted with the ghost of his own angry youth.”
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“You say I have my weakness. So has anyone that ever lived & the greater the man the greater the weakness. It is only insipid, wishy washy fellows that have no weaknesses”
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“s behaviour as tantamount to resignation, the same as if a Cabinet Minister had refused to abide by the principle of collective responsibility. Twelve leading Liberals wrote in Asquith”
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“wanted to take advantage of Caporetto to gain”
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“the fight must be to a finish—to a knockout”
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“should 500 men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, override the judgement—the deliberate judgement—of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country?”
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Tribute Archive: David Lloyd George Sproule Obituary | Castle Fallsview Funeral Home | West Saint John, NB
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2007· 1 entry
Historian John Shepherd wrote in History Today:
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1992· 1 entry
On the Ffestiniog Railway, is named after him
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1965· 1 entry
“What are you going to do, my boy, when you grow up?”
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1945· 30 entries
Died 1945-03-26.
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“The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man, with some push and go in him, who will be able to put the thing through.”
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“What are ten, twenty, or thirty millions when the British Empire is at stake? This is an artillery war. We must have every gun we can lay hands upon.”
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“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation—the great peaks of honour we had forgotten—Duty, Patriotism, and—clad in glittering white—the great pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
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“I should like to see a Welsh Army in the field. I should like to see the race who faced the Normans for hundreds of years in a struggle for freedom, the race that helped to win Crecy, the race that fought for a generation under Glendower, against the greatest captain in Europe—I should like to see that race go and give a taste of its quality in this great struggle in Europe.”
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“Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly but surely cleaving a path through the dense and dark thicket of armaments to the sunny land of brotherhood amongst nations.”
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“Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.”
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“When I talk about trade and industry, it is not because I think trade and industry are more important than social reform. It is purely because I know that you must make wealth in the country before you can distribute it.”
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“A free religion and a free people in a free land.”
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“Mr. Chamberlain is right in so far as he says that things are not well in this country. We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to a man the prodigious number of cheques that pass through the clearing-house. We must therefore propose something better than Mr. Chamberlain.”
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“As our fathers had freed our trade there was another work to accomplish. This was to free the land from the chains of feudalism, the schools from the dominion of the priest, and the people from the deadly grip of drink.”
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“I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet but certain revolution.”
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“[The House of Lords] is the right hon. Gentleman's poodle. It fetches and carries for him. It barks for him. It bites anybody that he sets it on to. And we are told that this is a great revising Chamber, the safeguard of liberty in the country. Talk about mockeries and shams. Was there ever such a sham as that?”
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“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
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“At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.”
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“Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.”
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“What we stint in materials we squander in lives... What you spare in money you spill in blood.”
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“You have practically taken over the whole of the engineering works of this country and controlled them by the State. I have seen resolutions passed from time to time at Trade Union Congresses [laughter] about nationalising the industries of this country. We have done it. [Cheers and laughter.]”
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“The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.”
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“Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.”
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“Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
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“Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?”
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“The landlords are receiving eight millions a year by way of royalties. What for? They never deposited the coal in the earth. It was not they who planted these great granite rocks in Wales. Who laid the foundations of the mountains? Was it the landlord? And yet he, by some divine right, demands as his toll—for merely the right for men to risk their lives in hewing these rocks—eight millions a year.”
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“I am a man of the people, bred amongst them, and it has been the greatest joy of my life to have had some part in fighting the battles of the class from whom I am proud to have sprung.”
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But died before he could take his seat in the House of Lords
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“But they say, "It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions". If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.”
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“Landlords have no nationality; their characteristics are cosmopolitan.”
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“I lay down as a proposition that most of the people who work hard for a living in the country belong to the Liberal Party. I would say, and I think, without offence, that most of the people who never worked for a living at all belong to the Tory Party.”
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“The ownership of land is not merely an enjoyment, it is a stewardship. It has been reckoned as such in the past, and if the owners cease to discharge their functions in seeing to the security and defence of the country, looking after the broken in their villages and in their neighbourhoods, the time will come to reconsider the conditions under which land is held in this country.”
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“There are always clouds in the international sky. You never get a perfectly blue sky in foreign affairs. And there are clouds even now. But we feel confident that the common sense, the patience, the good-will, the forbearance which enabled us to solve greater and more difficult and more urgent problems last year will enable us to pull through these difficulties at the present moment.”
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1942· 1 entry
“("Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war." - Zitiert bei Leopold Schwarzschild: World in Trance. London Hamish Hamilton 1942. p. 238. Google Books )”
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1940· 1 entry
Refused to serve in Churchill's War Cabinet
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1938· 1 entry
“David Lloyd George (1938) War Memoirs (Memórias de guerra)”
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1935· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1935–1945).
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1934· 3 entries
“Ich weiss, was man zum Kriegführen braucht! Glauben Sie mir, Deutschland ist nicht dazu imstande" - 1934, zum zwanzigsten Jahrestag des Kriegsausbruchs 1914. Zitiert bei Leopold Schwarzschild: Das Neue Tage-Buch, 1934 S. 749. Google Books”
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“Credetemi, la Germania non può entrare in guerra. [1° agosto 1934; ultime parole famose]”
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“Fra pochissimo tempo, forse tra un anno o due, gli elementi conservatori di questo paese vedranno la Germania [nazista] come un baluardo contro il comunismo in Europa... Non condanniamo troppo presto la Germania: un giorno la saluteremo come nazione amica. (1934)”
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1933· 1 entry
Warned that if Adolf Hitler were overthrown, communism would replace him in Germany
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1931· 2 entries
An illness prevented Lloyd George's joining the National Government when it was formed
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Career landmark: member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1935).
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1929· 2 entries
Lloyd George became Father of the House (longest-serving member of the Commons), an honorific position without power
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Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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1927· 1 entry
Lloyd George gave £300,000 and an annual grant of between £30,000 and £40,000 for the operations of the Liberal headquarters
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1926· 1 entry
Career landmark: leader of the Liberal Party (1926–1931).
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1924· 3 entries
Left the Liberals as a weak third party in British politics behind the ascendant Labour Party, with just over 40 MPs
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Lloyd George, realising that Liberal defeat was inevitable and keen to take control of the party himself, spent only £60,000
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Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1924–1929).
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1923· 2 entries
Lloyd George led the weak Liberal Party from 1926 to 1931
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Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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1922· 3 entries
Decided to support Greece in a war against Turkey
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When it became known that Lloyd George had essentially sold peerages (from 1917 to 1922 more than 120 hereditary peers were created) and lesser honours such as knighthoods, with a "price list for peerages" (£10,000 for a
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Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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1921· 4 entries
“We have murder by the throat!”
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“Your proposal to leave the six counties under the Northern Parliament would stereotype a frontier based neither upon natural features nor broad geographical considerations by giving it the character of an international boundary. Partition upon these lines the majority of the Irish people will never accept, nor could we conscientiously attempt to enforce it.”
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Damaged Lloyd George's credibility
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Lloyd George successfully concluded the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement
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1920· 2 entries
And unemployment rose; spending cuts followed in 1921–22, and in 1922 he became embroiled in a scandal over the sale of honours and the Chanak Crisis
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Where the League of Nations designed the Mandate for Palestine and conferred it upon Britain
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1919· 3 entries
“("You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth rate power; all the same in the end if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919 she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors." - The "Fontainebleau Memorandum" of Mr. Lloyd George (dated March 25, 1919), tmh.floonet.net)”
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“Opis: na konferencji w Wersalu w 1919.”
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The government set up the Ministry of Health, a development which led to major improvements in public health in the years that followed
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1918· 3 entries
Hated in the Labour movement for his handling of industrial issues after 1918, and disparaged by Conservatives for his radicalism
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Before the Americans were present in strength, Lloyd George wrote (wrongly) that the Germans would not attack and would fail if they did
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Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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1917· 5 entries
As Lloyd George wanted, would have been politically impossible given Conservative anger at the return of Churchill (still blamed for the Dardanelles) to office as Minister of Munitions in July, and Lloyd George's preoccu
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“If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course, they don”
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Had to reluctantly approve Field Marshal Douglas Haig's plans for the Battle of Passchendaele, which resulted in huge casualties with little strategic benefit
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Announcing an official British commitment to support an eventual Jewish homeland in Palestine
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Lloyd George called the 1917–18 Irish Convention in an attempt to settle the outstanding Home Rule for Ireland issue; however, the upsurge in republican sympathies in Ireland following the Easter Rising coupled with Lloy
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1916· 5 entries
Wanted to send machine guns to Romania (insufficient amounts were available for this to be feasible)
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for War (1916–1916).
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Whilst politically Britain had to give wholehearted support to what would probably be the last major French effort of the war
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916–1922).
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Was appointed Secretary of State for War but was frustrated by his limited power and clashes with Army commanders over strategy
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1915· 5 entries
Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions and expanded artillery shell production for the war
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Lloyd George became a strong supporter of general conscription, an issue that divided Liberals, and helped the passage of several conscription acts from January 1916 onwards
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Argued for the sending of British troops to the Balkans to assist Serbia and bring Greece and other Balkan countries onto the side of the Allies (this was eventually done—the Salonika expedition—although not on the sc
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And 1916, setting the stage for his move up to the height of power
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Career landmark: Minister of Munitions (1915–1916).
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1913· 1 entry
Lloyd George, along with Rufus Isaacs, the Attorney General, was involved in the Marconi scandal
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1911· 1 entry
And as with Home Rule the initial bill (1912) was delayed for two years by the Lords, becoming law in 1914, only to be suspended for the duration of the war
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1910· 3 entries
With the National Insurance Act 1911 and other measures helping to establish the modern welfare state
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Career landmark: member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1910).
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Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1918).
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1909· 4 entries
Lloyd George introduced his People's Budget, imposing a 20% tax on the unearned increase in the value of land, payable at the death of the owner or sale of the land, and 1⁄2 d
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Denounced the Conservatives and the wealthy classes with all his very considerable oratorical power
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“Letter to J. A. Spender (16 July 1909), quoted in H. V. Emy, 'The Land Campaign: Lloyd George as a Social Reformer, 1909–14', in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971), p. 43”
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“Budget speech in the House of Commons (29 April 1909)”
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1908· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915).
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Lloyd George replaced him as Chancellor of the Exchequer
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1907· 1 entry
Lloyd George would tell Herbert Lewis that he had thought Chamberlain's plan for a federal solution to the Home Rule Question correct in 1886 and still thought so, and that "If Henry Richmond, Osborne Morgan and the Wels
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1906· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1906).
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1905· 2 entries
Lloyd George entered the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade
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Career landmark: President of the Board of Trade (1905–1908).
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1898· 1 entry
Lloyd George created the Welsh National Liberal Council, a loose umbrella organisation covering the two federations, but with very little power
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1897· 2 entries
A close friend of Lloyd George Dr David Edwards alleged that his wife Mrs Catherine Edwards had given birth to a child to which he was not the father
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Merged his growing London practice with that of Arthur Rhys Roberts (who was to become Official Solicitor) under the name of "Lloyd George, Roberts and Co
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1895· 3 entries
In a failed Church in Wales Bill, Lloyd George added an amendment in a discreet attempt at forming a sort of Welsh home rule, a national council for appointment of the Welsh Church commissioners
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Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1900).
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“Ermenistan, bizim büyüttüğümüz muzaffer sunakta kurban edildi. İngiliz hükûmetinin 1895-1897 ve 1915'teki korkunç katliamlara karşı ölümcül bir kaçınılmazlık politikası korkunç katliamlardı.”
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1894· 1 entry
After the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues
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1892· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1892–1895).
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1890· 2 entries
"the Imperial Parliament is so overweighted with the concerns of a large empire that it cannot possibly devote the time and trouble necessary to legislate for the peculiar and domestic requirements of each and every sepa
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“the Imperial Parliament is so overweighted with the concerns of a large empire that it cannot possibly devote the time and trouble necessary to legislate for the peculiar and domestic requirements of each and every separate province”
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1889· 1 entry
Lloyd George became an alderman on Carnarvonshire County Council (a new body which had been created by the Local Government Act 1888) and would remain so for the rest of his life
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1888· 2 entries
That he was a "Welsh Nationalist of the Ellis type"
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Lloyd George married Margaret Owen, the daughter of a well-to-do local farming family, on 24 January 1888.
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1887· 1 entry
1894, 1897, 1902, 1907 and 1911, whilst the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes had been invited to attend the Cabinet and War Committee on his visit to the UK in the spring of 1916
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1884· 1 entry
After being articled to a firm in Porthmadog and taking Honours in his final law examination
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1881· 1 entry
“Diary entry after visiting the House of Commons (12 November 1881), quoted in W. R. P. George, The Making of Lloyd George (1976), p. 101”
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-01-17.
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