It was LloydGeorge who served to balance Wilson's Fourteen Points against the harsh demands of French premier Georges Clemenceau and who, with his "conference diplomacy," did much to shape the final version of the peace treaty.
LloydGeorge's election to Parliament from Caernarvon Boroughs in 1890 established him in politics.
LloydGeorge was reluctant at first to see Great Britain join the conflict of World War I. But as minister of munitions, then as minister of war, he soon advocated a fierce, swift offensive against Germany.
Although born in Manchester in 1863, David LloydGeorge was a Welsh -speaking Cymrian, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government.
When the Liberal government fell as a result of the Shell Crisis of 1915 and was replaced with a coalitiongovernment dominated by Liberals still under the Premiership of Asquith, LloydGeorge became the first Minister of Munitions in 1915 and then war secretary in 1916.
In 1929 LloydGeorge became Father of the House, the longest serving member of the Commons.
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