Want to buy a slice of Lloyd George history? One of his former homes is up for sale.
One of Lloyd George’s former homes, at Twyford in Berkshire, has gone up for sale at a cost of £2 million. This is a house where LG is said to have lived whilst serving as prime minister before nearby Chequers was owned by the government. When Chequers was purchased as a country retreat for the […]
Read Lloyd George’s speeches
The text of four of David Lloyd George’s speeches to Liberal Party conferences in the 1920s and 30s can now be accessed online through the website British Political Speech, The website contains speeches by leading British politicians going back to the late 19th century and as well as the four speeches made by Lloyd George […]
Lady Shirley Hooson – a tribute
Members of the Society will be saddened to learn of the death of Shirley Hooson on the 21st April 2018 at the age of 91. She had been a member of the Society for many years and, until suffering a debilitating stroke three years ago, had been a regular attender at the annual Weekend Schools […]
Photos from a four volume biography of Lloyd George published in 1913
J Hugh Edwards, was a supporter of David Lloyd George, a member of Cymru Fydd and later Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan and Accrington. In 1913 he published a multi-volume biography of Lloyd George, wth a short history of the Welsh people. It contains many photographs of people and places which were important in Ll.G’s […]
Tribute to a fine Scottish Liberal and former speaker at the weekend schools
Members of the Lloyd George Society will be sorry to learn of the death, on 28th July, of Dr. Alexander (Sandy) S. Waugh. Sandy Waugh was a noted historian of Liberalism in the UK, and spoke at the Society’s Weekend School in 2012. Sandy joined the Liberal Party in 1950, and must have been one […]
“The Cavalry of the Clouds” – David Lloyd George and the formation of the Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force was founded towards the end of the First World War, in April 1918. Lloyd George was of course prime minister and he was a highly appreciative of the military worth of the existing air forces and strongly supported the formation on a separate, independent service. In a real sense the RAF […]
Hear Lloyd George and Clement Davies speak
You can find all sorts of unexpected entertainments on Youtube but we have recently come across two old newsreel clips which will surely be of interest to Lloyd George Society members. First a newsreel from the general election of November 1935 in which Lloyd George urges voters to support candidates who are for peace, disarmament […]
Meeting to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – Monday 6 November, National Liberal Club
On Monday 6 November the Society, supported by Liberal Democrats Friends of Israel, held a meeting in the David Lloyd George Room at the National Liberal Club to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
In a letter dated 2 November 1917, Arthur Balfour, the Foreign Secretary in the Coalition Government of David Lloyd George, […]
New Lloyd George letter available at the National Library of Wales
A hand written letter sent from number 10 Downing Street by David Lloyd George to Frederick William Hughes, urging Welsh farmers to aid the war effort has recently been acquired by the National Library of Wales at an auction in Cardiff. It has been added to the substantial collection of Lloyd George papers already available […]
A good home for that Lloyd George memorabilia
Visitors to the the website will remember from an earlier article that there was a sale of Lloyd George memorabilia, consisting of documents and photographs, taking place at Dreweatts Auctions in Bloomsbury on Thursday 23 March. The items going under the hammer were from the private collection of the family of Frances Stevenson, Countess Lloyd […]
