The Right Honourable David LloydGeorge, 1st EarlLloydGeorge of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Although born in Manchester in 1863, David LloydGeorge was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government.
In 1929 LloydGeorge became Father of the House, the longest serving member of the Commons.
LloydGeorge immediately reorganized the structure of the government, creating a small war cabinet of five (which when attended also by representatives of the dominions and India became the Imperial war cabinet) and forming for the first time a cabinet secretariat.
At the Paris Peace Conference (1919), LloydGeorge exercised a moderating influence on both the harsh demands of Georges Clemenceau and the idealistic proposals of Woodrow Wilson, and to a large extent he shaped the final agreement (see Versailles, Treaty of).
LloydGeorge continued to be active in Parliament and, despite the fact that he was disliked by many Liberals for his treatment of Asquith, served (1926–31) as the leader of the by-then shattered Liberal party.
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