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David Lloyd George  ©Lloyd George was one of the great reforming British chancellors of the 20th century and prime minister from 1916 to 1922.

David Lloyd George was born in Manchester on 17 January 1863, son of a schoolmaster. His father died when he was young and his mother took him to Wales to be raised. He became a lifelong Welsh nationalist. He qualified as a solicitor and in 1890 was elected Liberal member of parliament for Caernarvon, a seat he held until 1945. He quickly became known for his radicalism and earned notoriety for his opposition to the Boer War.

In 1905, the prime minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, appointed Lloyd George as president of the Board of Trade. 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' since it provided for social insurance that was to be partly financed by land and income taxes. The budget was rejec

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David Lloyd George

The Right Honourable David Lloyd George OM PC
In office 6 December 1916 – 19 October 1922
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	H. H. Asquith
Succeeded by	Bonar Law
In office 14 October 1926 – 4 November 1931
Preceded by	H. H. Asquith
Succeeded by	Herbert Samuel
In office 6 July 1916 – 5 December 1916
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Earl Kitchener
Succeeded by	The Earl of Derby
In office 25 May 1915 – 9 July 1916
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Edwin Montagu
In office 12 April 1908 – 25 May 1915
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	H. H. Asquith
Succeeded by	Reginald McKenna
In office 10 December 1905 – 12 April 1908
Prime Minister	Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
Succeeded by	Winston Churchill
In offi • David Lloyd George's Early Life David Lloyd George was born in Manchester, but the village of Llanystumdwy in Eifionydd was always his "home". He lived here from the age of one, until he was seventeen. It was at the local church school that he led his first struggle for "religious freedom and equality" when he organised a bojkott of reciting the Creed and the Catechism. He attended the school until July 1878 when the log-book records that he left "to be articled an Attorney." William George, David Lloyd George's father, was a Pembrokeshire man from Trefwrdan. When teaching at Pwllheli he met and married Elizabeth Lloyd of Llanystumdwy. They later moved to Manchester where David Lloyd George was born in January 1863. Before the end of the year they returned to Pembrokeshire where William began to keep a smallholding. A sick man physically and subject to bouts of depression, he died of pneumonia in June 1864. Elizabeth and the children, Ellen and David, moved to Llanystumdwy