David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British Liberal politician and statesman. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led a Wartime Coalition Government between 1916 and 1922 and was the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1926 to 1931.
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... David Lloyd George, (1863 – 1945) from the British Liberal Party was a highly effective leader of the coalition government that took power in late 1916 and ... Unlike Clemenceau and Orlando, Lloyd George did not want to destroy the German economy and political system—as Clemenceau demanded—with massive reparations ... It has been said that “Lloyd George was the most affable and the most resilient, and he was probably the best at negotiating” ...
... Mount Lloyd George in the Northern Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada was named after Lloyd George during World War I, and still retains the name ... Lloyd George Knew My Father is a well-known ditty, with the lyrics "Lloyd George knew my father/Father knew Lloyd George" repeated incessantly to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers ... A feature film, The Life Story of David Lloyd George, was made in 1918 by Ideal Films, suppressed, rediscovered in 1994 and first shown in 1996 ...
... In 1909 the Liberal Chancellor David Lloyd George introduced his "People's Budget", the first budget which aimed to redistribute wealth ... statesman Lord Rosebery commented on what Gladstone would make of this budget David Lloyd George had written in 1913 that the Liberals were "carving ... Henry Asquith and the new Premier David Lloyd George ...
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