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 * David Lloyd George by: Lauren**

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· Lloyd George was born January 17, 1863 in Manchester, England. · Lloyd George’s father died when he was young and his mother raised him in Wales. · He was a lifelong Welsh nationalist. · Lloyd George married in 1888 to Margaret Owen, a daughter of a wealthy farmer. · He was qualified as a solicitor. In 1890, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Caernarvon. He held this seat until 1945. · He was known for his radicalism and earned fame for his opposition to the Second Boer War (1899-1902). · In 1905, the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, appointed Lloyd George as president of the Board of Trade(1905-1908) · He oversaw passage of the Merchant Shipping Act(1906) · In 1908, he was named Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of HH Asquith. · Lloyd George's 1909 budget has been called the 'people's budget'. It provided for social insurance that was to be partly financed by land and income taxes. This budget was rejected by the House of Lords. This led to the Parliament Act of 1911 by which the Lords lost their power of the veto. · Lloyd George remained Chancellor of the Exchequer for the early years of WW1. · In 1915, he was appointed minister of munitions in Asquith's wartime coalition government. · Lloyd George became unhappy with Asquith’s behaviour with the war and convinced the Conservatives to remove Asquith, making him Prime Minister on December 7, 1916. · Lloyd George did not trust Sir Douglas Haig because he thought he wasted soldiers and didn’t like how he didn’t really care if his soldiers died or lived. · Lloyd George found disagreement with the Chief of the Imperial Staff, General Robertson. · Lloyd George's achievements in the last two years of the war included persuading the Royal Navy to introduce the convoy system and how the Allied military command came together under the French General Ferdinand Foch. · At the end of the favorable war, Lloyd George was Britain’s Chief Delegate to the Paris Peace Conference that made the Versailles Treaty. · Right after the Paris Peace Conference, Lloyd George was awarded the Order of Merit by the King. · Lloyd George remained Prime Minister but now dependent on Conservative support. · In 1921 Lloyd George secured the settlement that established the Irish Free State. · Lloyd was part of a scandal involving the selling of knighthoods and peerages. · In October, the Conservatives took away from the coalition over their opposition to Britain’s foreign policy in Turkey. · Lloyd George resigned as prime minister. He remained in parliament, but was unimportant and powerless. · In 1944, he was made Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor. · Lloyd George died March 26, 1945 at Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Wales from cancer. · “Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” · “Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.” · “A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.”  ·  " There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
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