David Lloyd George | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:34 1 Upbringing and early life
00:07:01 2 Member of Parliament
00:08:01 2.1 Issues
00:09:39 2.2 Opposes Boer War
00:11:35 2.3 Opposes Education Act of 1902
00:12:27 3 President of the Board of Trade (1905–1908)
00:13:20 4 Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915)
00:14:43 4.1 People's Budget, 1909
00:17:33 4.2 Mansion House Speech, 1911
00:18:33 4.3 Marconi scandal 1913
00:19:08 4.4 Welsh Church Act 1914
00:19:52 4.5 First World War
00:22:04 5 Minister of Munitions
00:24:54 6 Secretary of State for War
00:28:04 7 Prime Minister (1916–1922)
00:28:15 7.1 War leader (1916–1918)
00:28:26 7.1.1 Forming a government
00:31:01 7.1.2 Nivelle Affair
00:33:21 7.1.3 The U-Boat War
00:33:29 7.1.3.1 Shipping
00:35:35 7.1.3.2 Convoys
00:38:33 7.1.4 Russian Revolution
00:39:55 7.1.5 Imperial War Cabinet
00:40:40 7.1.6 Passchendaele
00:44:33 7.1.7 Supreme War Council
00:46:30 7.1.8 Manpower crisis and the unions
00:49:27 7.1.9 Strategic priorities
00:51:20 7.1.10 Home Front
00:52:49 7.1.11 Crises of 1918
00:55:53 7.2 Postwar Prime Minister (1918–1922)
00:56:29 7.2.1 Coupon election of 1918
00:58:53 7.2.2 Paris 1919
01:01:07 7.2.3 Postwar social reforms
01:02:54 7.2.4 Electoral changes: Suffragism
01:03:43 7.2.5 Wages for Workers
01:04:52 7.2.6 Health for the Heroes
01:06:17 7.2.7 What was the cost?
01:06:47 7.2.8 Ireland
01:08:21 7.2.9 Foreign policy crises
01:11:05 7.2.10 Domestic crises
01:12:11 7.2.11 Fall from power 1922
01:13:19 8 Later political career (1922–1945)
01:13:31 8.1 Liberal reunion
01:15:25 8.2 Liberal leader
01:19:48 8.3 Marginalised
01:20:35 8.4 Lloyd George's New Deal
01:21:22 8.5 Appeasement of Germany
01:23:00 8.6 Final years
01:25:01 8.7 Death
01:25:48 9 Assessment
01:28:19 10 Family
01:28:28 10.1 Margaret and children
01:29:28 10.2 Frances
01:30:19 10.3 Descendants
01:31:05 11 Lloyd George's Cabinets
01:31:15 11.1 War Cabinet
01:31:40 11.1.1 War Cabinet changes
01:32:44 11.1.2 Other members of Lloyd George's War Government
01:34:11 11.2 Peacetime Government, January 1919 – October 1922
01:36:00 11.2.1 Peacetime changes
01:38:24 12 Styles of address and honours
01:38:34 12.1 Styles of address
01:39:09 12.2 Peerage
01:39:26 12.3 Decorations
01:40:06 12.4 Academic
01:40:52 12.5 Freedoms
01:41:28 12.6 Namesakes
01:41:59 13 Cultural depictions
01:42:12 14 Selected works
01:43:14 15 See also
01:43:28 16 Notes
01:43:36 17 Citations
01:43:45 18 Bibliography
01:43:54 18.1 Biographical
01:47:09 18.2 Specialized studies
02:03:40 18.3 Primary sources
02:05:05 19 Further reading
02:07:14 20 External links
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David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician. He was the last Liberal to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915) during H. H. Asquith's tenure as Prime Minister, Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of the Central Powers. Although he remained Prime Minister after the 1918 general election, the Conservatives were the largest party in the coalition, with the Liberals split between those loyal to Lloyd George, and those still supporting Asquith. He became the leader of the Liberal Party in the late 1920s, but it grew even smaller and more divided. By the 1930s he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure. He gave weak support to the war effort during the Secon ...
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