David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1922.
He was the final Liberal to hold the post.
Lloyd George was born in Manchester to Welsh parents.
His father—a schoolmaster—died in 1864 and he was raised in Wales by his mother and her shoemaker brother, whose Liberal politics and Baptist faith strongly influenced Lloyd George; the same uncle helped the boy embark on a career as a solicitor after leaving school.
Lloyd George became active in local politics, gaining a reputation as an orator and a proponent of a Welsh blend of radical Liberalism which championed nonconformism and the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Wales, equality for labourers and tenant farmers, and reform of landownership.
In 1890, he narrowly won a by-election to become the Member of Parliament for Caernarvon Boroughs, in which seat he remained for fifty-five years.
Lloyd George served in Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet from 1905.
After H. H. Asquith succeeded to the premiership in 1908, Lloyd George replaced him as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
To fund extensive welfare reforms, he proposed taxes on land ownership and high incomes in the "People's Budget" (1909), which the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected.
The resulting constitutional crisis was only resolved after two elections in 1910 and the passage of the Parliament Act 1911.
His budget was then enacted alongside the National Insurance Act 1911 which helped to establish the modern welfare state.
In 1913, he was embroiled in the Marconi scandal but he remained in office and struggled to impose Irish Home Rule until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 suspended its implementation.
As wartime Chancellor, Lloyd George strengthened the country's finances and forged agreements with trade unions to maintain production.
In 1915, Asquith formed a Liberal-led wartime coalition with the Conservatives and Labour.
Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions and rapidly expanded production.
In 1916, he was appointed Secretary of State for War but was frustrated by his limited power and clashes with the military establishment over strategy.
Amid stalemate on the Western Front, confidence in Asquith's leadership waned.
He was forced to resign in December 1916; Lloyd George succeeded him as Prime Minister, supported by the Conservatives and some Liberals.
He centralised authority through a smaller war cabinet, a new Cabinet Office and his "Garden Suburb" of advisers.
To combat food shortages he implemented the convoy system, established rationing, and stimulated farming.
After supporting the disastrous French Nivelle Offensive in 1917, he had to reluctantly approve Field Marshal Haig's plans for the Battle of Passchendaele which resulted in huge casualities with little strategic benefit.
Against the views of his commanders, he was finally able to see the Allies brought under one command in March 1918.
The war effort turned to their favour that August and was won in November.
In the aftermath, he and the Conservatives maintained their coalition with popular support following the December 1918 "Coupon" election.
His government had extended the franchise to all men and some women earlier in the year.
Lloyd George was a major player in Paris Peace Conference of 1919 but the situation in Ireland worsened that year, erupting into the Irish War of Independence which lasted until Lloyd George negotiated independence for the Irish Free State in 1921.
At home he initiated reforms to education and housing but trade union militancy entered record levels, the economy became depressed in 1920 and unemployment rose; spending cuts followed (1921–22) and he was embroiled in a scandal over the sale of honours and the Chanak Crisis in 1922.
Bonar Law won backbench support for the Conservatives to contend the next election alone.
Lloyd George resigned; with his party split between his and Asquith's supporters, his faction won less than 60 seats in the 1922 election.
The next year the pair reunited to oppose Stanley Baldwin's tariff proposal which he put to the country.
The Liberals made gains in 1923 but remained third after the Conservatives and Labour, propping up a Labour minority government; they never regained their status as second party and, when the Labour government fell, went down to just over 40 seats in 1924 under Asquith.
Lloyd George led the Liberals from 1926 to 1931, putting forward innovative proposals for public works; this failed to convert into seats in 1929 and from 1931 he was a marginalised and mistrusted figure heading a small rump of breakaway Liberals opposed to the National Government.
He declined an offer to serve in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet in 1940 and was raised to the peerage in 1945, shortly before his death.
Lloyd George has often been ranked highly among modern British prime ministers, but his legacy remains complicated and controversial.
Scholars have praised his welfare reforms and his efforts to mobilise and lead Britain to victory during the First World War, but he has also been criticised for adopting a "presidential" style of leadership, for distrusting his own commanders during the war, and for his strategic failures and involvement in various scandals.
His legacies over Ireland and the Treaty of Versailles are also controversial.
In the post-war period, he arguably alienated many of the workers he had earlier championed, helping to swell Labour's popular support at the Liberals' expense (not helped by his conflicts with Asquithian Liberals after 1916).
William Sutherland (Liberal politician)
Sir William Sutherland, KCB, PC( 4 March 1880 – 19 September 1949) was a Scottish civil servant, Liberal Party politician and colliery owner.
He was closely associated with Prime Minister David Lloyd George serving as his private and press secretary and later as his Parliamentary Private Secretary.
He was one of Lloyd George's go- betweens in the sale of honours for the Lloyd George Fund.
In his dealings with the press he would certainly have been labelled a spin doctor if that phrase had had currency in the early twentieth century, indeed he has recently been described as" the first of the modern spin doctors".
Gwilym Lloyd George
Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, (4 December 1894 – 14 February 1967) was a British politician and cabinet minister.
The younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957.
Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd- George of Dwyfor, DL( 28 April 1924 – 29 July 2010) was a British Peer.
He sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
Frances Stevenson
Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (7 October 1888 – 5 December 1972) was the mistress, personal secretary, confidante and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Frances Louise Stevenson was born in London.
She was the daughter of a Lowland Scottish father and a mother of mixed French and Italian extraction.
She was educated at Clapham High School, where in the fifth form she had made friends with Mair, Lloyd George's oldest daughter, and then at Royal Holloway College where she studied Classics.
In July 1911, Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired Stevenson as a governess for his youngest daughter Megan.
Lloyd George and Stevenson were soon attracted to each other.
Although Stevenson, who wanted a conventional marriage and many children, hesitated about becoming the mistress of a married man, she agreed to become Lloyd George's personal secretary on his terms, which included a sexual relationship, in 1913.
She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours and accompanied Lloyd George to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
The delegates were under the impression she was still just his secretary.
Stevenson chose the location and supervised the construction of Lloyd George's house Bron-y-de in Churt, Surrey.
She also arranged and collated Lloyd George's extensive archive of personal and political papers so that he could write his "War Memoirs".
After having had two abortions, Stevenson gave birth to a daughter, Jennifer, in 1929.
Stevenson had been having an affair with Thomas Tweed, a novelist and Liberal Party official.
Stevenson encouraged Lloyd George to believe the child was his, but it is more likely that her father was Tweed.
Two years after Lloyd George's wife Margaret died, Stevenson married Lloyd George on 23 October 1943 despite the disapproval of Lloyd George's children from his first marriage.
Less than 18 months later, Lloyd George died on 26 March 1945.
As Dowager Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, she lived at Churt for the rest of her life, devoting her time to her family, charitable activities, perpetuating the memory of Lloyd George and writing.
Her memoir "The Years That Are Past" was published in 1967, and her diary of her life with Lloyd George was published in 1971.
Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (15 February 1889 – 1 May 1968) was a British soldier and peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, a member of the House of Lords from 1945 until his death.
The son of the Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George by his first wife, Margaret Owen, Lloyd George was educated at Portmadoc School and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1910.
During the First World War he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and rose to the rank of Major.
He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and served in the British Army again during the Second World War.
On 7 April 1917 Lloyd George married Roberta McAlpine (1898–1966), a daughter of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet.
They had two children, Valerie Davidia (1918–2000) and Owen (1924–2010), before being divorced in 1933.
In 1935 Lloyd George married secondly Winifred Emily Peedle, a daughter of Thomas W. Peedle.
Valerie became the wife of the academic and broadcasting executive, Sir Goronwy Daniel.
On 1 January 1945 his father was created Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, and he gained the courtesy title of Viscount Gwynedd.
Less than three months later, on 26 March 1945, his father died of cancer and he inherited his peerage, unusually becoming the first member of the family to sit in the House of Lords, as David Lloyd George had been too ill to do so.
He wrote a biography of his mother, "Dame Margaret", and of his father, "Lloyd George".
Margaret Lloyd George
Dame Margaret Lloyd George( 4 November 1864 – 20 January 1941) was a Welsh humanitarian and one of the first seven women magistrates appointed in Britain in 1919.
She was the wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George from 1888 until her death in 1941.
Richard George (athlete)
Richard Lloyd George( born May 22, 1953 in Fillmore, Utah) is an American javelin athlete.
He represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Norman Page
Norman Page( born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshiredied 4 July 1935 in London) was a British actor.
He is best known for his portrayal of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the First World War, in the 1918 film" The Life Story of David Lloyd George" which is believed to be the first ever feature length political biopic.
A. J. Sylvester
Albert James Sylvester( 24 November 1889 – 27 October 1989) served as Principal Private Secretary to British statesman David Lloyd George from 1923 until Lloyd George's death in March 1945.
A native of Harlaston, Staffordshire, Sylvester served as private secretary to the Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1914 – 1921, to the Secretary of the War Cabinet and the Cabinet, 1916 – 1921, to the Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet, 1917, to the British Secretary of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and to three successive Prime Ministers, 1921- 3: Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin.
He ran Lloyd George's private office in London.
After Lloyd George's death, A. J. Sylvester earned his living as a member of Lord Beaverbrook's staff from 1945 until 1948, and spent a further year as unpaid assistant to the Liberal Party leader, Clement Davies.
In 1947, he published" The Real Lloyd George", based on his diaries.
In 1949, he retired from political life, and moved to a farm at Corsham, Wiltshire, England, where he served as JP.
His ambition to publish a full- scale autobiography, upon which he was actively engaged in extreme old age, never came to fruition.
His papers provide an insight into the life of Lloyd George after his fall from power in 1922.

Question: Where was the husband of Frances Stevenson born?