David Lloyd George

The Right Hon.The Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM PC 

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC, was born on17 January 1863, died, aged 82 on 26 March 1945.

Known as David George, in 1917 he added his uncle's name in his honour and became David Lloyd George.   His uncle had been a great influence on Lloyd George's education and career.

When Lloyd George's father died, his mother, Elizabeth George (1828–96) sold the farm and moved with her children to her native Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, where she lived in Tŷ Newydd with her brother Richard Lloyd (1834–1917), a shoemaker, Baptist minister and strong Liberal.

On 24 January 1888 Lloyd George married Margaret Owen, the daughter of a well-to-do local farming family. Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid (Bugle of Freedom) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

Ty Newydd House today is the National Centre for Writing in Wales. Overlooking Cardigan Bay, part of the building dates to the 16th century.   It has attracted both writers and tutors since 1990.   The resident wardens take great care of their visitors and provide food of a high standard, (with sticky toffee pudding to die for).   This picture shows Lloyd George's bedroom, where I had the pleasure of spending a weekend.   It is complete with the original curtains and bedhead from Lloyd George's time at the house. The fire place  dates from the same period and has a large mirror built in on either side.   Each tile has an illustration of a wild flower. http://www.tynewydd.org/english/home.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgeorge.htm