David Lloyd George: The Great Dynamic Force or The Great Scoundrel of British Politics?
He had very little formal education, never knew his father, and yet rose to the very top of British politics, holding two major offices of state, selling peerages (Lordships), and engaging in insider trading along the way. A man like no other, in British political history, who was David Lloyd George?
David Lloyd George was born on the 17th of January 1863, Manchester. He was brought up from the age of three months in rural Wales. His father, William George, who worked as a teacher in Liverpool, moved back to Wales on account of his ill health, passed on in June 1864. This led his mother to move to her brother’s, who worked as a shoemaker.
It was his uncle, Richard Lloyd, who would have a profound effect on the subject’s entire life and life choices. Firstly, with his training as a solicitor and subsequently as a Liberal member of parliament for Caernarvon boroughs from 1890- till his demise in 1945.
Back Bench MP and Opposition Spokesman: 1890–1902
Our hero works as a spokesperson on Welsh affairs and other bits of jobs here and there. But it isn’t until he speaks out against the war being waged by Britain against the Dutch, for control of the Republic of South Africa and its precious…
