Post Card & House of Lords Raised Seal D Lloyd George Signature - $293 - (Amityville, NY)

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This auction is for a D Lloyd George Post Card and House of Lords Raised Seal D Lloyd George Signature. David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British Liberal politician and statesman. His most important role came as Prime Minister during the First World War and immediately after. He led the Wartime Coalition Government between 1916 and 1922. He made a greater impact on British public life than arguably any other 20th-century leader, thanks to his leadership in winning the war, his post-war role in reshaping Europe and partitioning Ireland (between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which remained part of the UK) and his pre-war introduction of Britain's social welfare system. As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915), he was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. He was the last Liberal to serve as Prime Minister. His base of power for the coalition premiership was mostly from Conservatives rather his own Liberals. He split the Liberals, which led to the permanent decline of the Liberal Party as a serious political force. After 1922 he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure. In the Second World War he was known for defeatism. Lloyd George is best known as the highly energetic Prime Minister (1916–22) who guided the Empire through the First World War to victory over Germany. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the Great War. As an icon of 20th-century liberalism, he is regarded as the founder of the British welfare state. Although many barristers have been Prime Minister, Lloyd George is to date the only solicitor to have held that office. He is also so far the only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh and to have spoken English as a second language. He was voted the third greatest British prime minister of…

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