Facts: - order: 3rd - successor: michael patrick cashin - party: liberal party - monarch: george v - predecessor: john crosbie - office: prime minister of newfoundland - death date: 13 june 1937 - term end: may 22 , 1919 - constituency: trinity bay - term start: january 5 , 1918 - birth date: 17 december 1864 - name: william f. lloyd - nationality: newfoundlander - birth place: stockport , england - governor: charles alexander harris Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william f. lloyd .
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sir william frederick lloyd -lrb- december 17 , 1864 -- june 13 , 1937 -rrb- was a newspaper editor and prime minister of newfoundland from 1918 to 1919 .born in stockport , england , lloyd emigrated to newfoundland in 1890 where he taught school before becoming a journalist and becoming editor of the telegram .he was first elected to the newfoundland house of assembly in 1904 as a liberal and became leader of the opposition in 1916 .due to a political crisis over conscription the government of sir edward patrick morris formed a national government and invited lloyd to join as attorney-general .after morris retired at the end of 1917 , the governor asked lloyd to form a government even though he was from a minority party .lloyd took over the national government but in 1919 his minister of finance , sir michael patrick cashin , who had succeeded morris as leader of the newfoundland people 's party moved a motion of no confidence and defeated the lloyd government .cashin became the new prime minister and lloyd returned to the opposition benches .lloyd served again in government , briefly , as minister of justice in 1924 .in 1919 , he was named knight-commander in the order of st michael and st george .he married agnes taylor in 1896 ; the couple had one son .