This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state.

David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment !, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status.

Quickly rising to prominence among the Pro-Boers was David Lloyd George, a relatively new MP and a master of rhetoric, who took advantage of having a national stage to speak out on a controversial issue to make his name in the party.

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.

Lloyd George and Churchill, however, were zealous supporters of the war, and gradually forced the old pacifist Liberals out.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

David Lloyd George

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.

In 1922 the Conservative backbenchers rebelled against the continuation of the coalition, citing in particular the Chanak Crisis over Turkey and Lloyd George's corrupt sale of honours amongst other grievances, and Lloyd George was forced to resign.

Asquith died in 1928 and the enigmatic figure of Lloyd George returned to the leadership and began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day.

Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.

Lloyd George himself was ill and did not actually join.

From the outside, Lloyd George called for the party to abandon the government completely in defence of free trade, but only a few MPs and candidates followed.

In the 1935 general election, just 17 Liberal MPs were elected, along with Lloyd George and three followers as " independent Liberals ".

Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

* David Lloyd George 1926 – 1931

* Megan Lloyd George 1949 – 1951

** David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

* Lloyd George and the honours scandal.

* John Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition.

He received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber who wanted him to write the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera, for which he wrote " Masquerade ".

Lloyd rang Smith to ask if he wanted to do it, and Smith agreed for £ 100 an episode.

He wanted to " knock away the props " by attacking Germany's allies-he argued for the sending of British troops to Greece ( this was done-the Salonika expedition-although not on the scale that Lloyd George had wanted, and mountain ranges made his suggestions of grand Balkan offensives impractical ) and for the sending of machine guns to Romania ( insufficient were available ).

For his thirty-fourth birthday, Tweedy received a private guitar lesson from Richard Lloyd of Television ; Tweedy was a big fan of the group and was particularly fond of the guitar work, which he wanted to incorporate into his music.

As Peckinpah wanted to return to the 3 male / 1 female dynamic, it was decided Lloyd was no longer required after she asked for a raise.

* Mr. Allmine ( portrayed by Bert Lloyd ) — A man who took Daniel's clock claiming he owned it ( along with anything he wanted hence his name ).

French and Macpherson wanted Sinn Fein declared illegal and pressed for a free hand to deal with the militants, although the issue received little priority whilst Lloyd George was away at Versailles in the first half of 1919.

Lloyd Braun was the other son his parents wanted.

In the late ` 70s, Rice got the idea to tell his Cold War story through the prism of the long-standing U. S .- Soviet chess rivalry, but when Rice wanted to start working on the new musical in early ` 79, Lloyd Webber was already well underway with his own independent musical Cats.

Lloyd George wanted Russia persuaded to make the maximum possible effort, a necessity again stressed at the second Chantilly Conference in December 1916.

Brock Millman argued that the threat to stand for Parliament was blackmail to get a military job out of Lloyd George, but Keith Jeffery rejects this, arguing that Wilson would have been no threat as a new MP but as a military adviser was a useful rival to Robertson, whom by July 1917 French was telling Wilson Lloyd George wanted to remove.

Over lunch on 17 October Lloyd George wanted Wilson ’ s paper rewritten to remove “ all semblance of dictation ” by the new inter-Allied body.

Milner told Wilson ( 10 February ) that Lloyd George wanted to move Robertson to Versailles.

Wilson was particularly cross, early in 1921, that with only 10 Guards and 18 Line ( 8 of them Irish ) battalions in the UK to meet another threatened Triple Alliance strike, 4 battalions were being sent from the Rhine to supervise the Upper Silesia plebiscite: he asked Lloyd George if he wanted to be “ Prime Minister of England or Silesia ”.

Earl Lloyd, the first black player to play in the NBA, said: " Red Auerbach convinced his players that he loved them [...] so all they wanted to do was please him.

who, along with Ms. Vance, wanted to create “ a building that sings from any viewpoint .” The theatre building has no right angles but does have wide bands and terraces and is “ reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s buildings .” Franzen selected the concrete exterior because he was inspired by Houston ’ s location and the warm weather of the Southwest.

Britain's Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who wanted to negotiate a favourable trade agreement with the Bolsheviks pressed Poland to make peace on Soviet terms and refused any assistance to Poland that would alienate the Whites in the Russian Civil War.

AOC Lloyd wanted to give No. 601 Squadron over to convoy escort duty.

Lloyd discussed the situation with Hartnell and the actor agreed that it would be best to leave, although later in life he would claim that he had not wanted to go.

Robertson thought that Lloyd George wanted him out of the country to gain control over strategy, and rejected the idea as “ the Kitchener dodge ” in November, despite Lloyd George offering to go on the mission himself.