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David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from He was a Liberal politician most known for his support for Welsh devolution, social reform initiatives, wartime government, participation in the Paris Peace Conference, and negotiating the formation of the Irish Free State.

David Lloyd George has been described as "the first son of the people to reach supreme power," and his life exemplifies the shift in leadership from the landed aristocracy of the nineteenth century to the mass democracy of the twentieth.

EARLY LIFE

• David Lloyd George was born to Welsh parents, William George and Elizabeth Lloyd, in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, on 17 January He was raised in Wales from the age of three months, first in Pembrokeshire and later in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd.

• When William George died in , Richard Lloyd, the widow's brother, took his sister