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[[File:David Lloyd George (1902).jpg|thumb|400px|David Lloyd George in 1902, Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.]]
[[File:David Lloyd George visiting Indian soldiers, 1916 (c).jpg|thumb|500px| Lloyd George was Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Prime Minister during the war. He is pictured here visiting Indian soldiers on the Western Front.]]
[[File:David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (2).jpg|thumb|400px|Portrait by {{w1|Philip de László}}, painted in 1931.]]
'''David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George<ref>Under the rules governing titles within the peerage, Lloyd George's name in his title was hyphenated even though his surname was not.</ref> of Dwyfor''', OM, PC ([[17 January]] 1863 – [[26 March]] 1945) was a British statesman of the [[w:Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]]. As [[w:Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (1908–1915), Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern [[w:welfare state|welfare state]]. His most important role came as the highly energetic [[w:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] of the [[w:Lloyd George ministry|Wartime Coalition]] Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the [[w:Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of the [[Central Powers]].
As Prime Minister, Lloyd George favoured the Conservatives in his coalition in the 1918 elections, leaving the Liberal Party a minority. He became 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
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*{{ml|29 April|29 Apr}} - The People's Budget is passed which, but later blocked by the House of Lords.▼
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*{{ml|21 July|21 Jul}} - Mansion House Speech.▼
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*{{ml|8 September|08 Sep}} - Speech at Local Government Board.▼
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*{{ml|19 September|19 Sep}} - [[Great Speeches of the War/Lloyd George|Speech at Queen's Hall]].<ref name="gsw">{{gsw}}</ref>▼
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*{{ml|29 September|29 Sep}} - [[Great Speeches of the War/Lloyd George (2)|Speech at Welsh National Conference]] held at Cardiff.<ref name="gsw" />▼
*{{ml|17 November|17 Nov}} - Introduces first War [[Budget]].▼
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*{{ml|6 December|06 Dec}} - David Lloyd George is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following his ousting of [[H.H. Asquith]]. ▼
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*{{ml|5 January|05 Jan}} - "[[British War Aims]]" statement.▼
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