David Lloyd George

Standard Name: Lloyd George, David

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Evelyn Sharp
She wrote to explain that she was unlikely to be able to supply the paper with leading articles for some time (since she would be in prison), but more importantly to reproach Scott with supporting...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
prelims
She approaches...
Textual Production Mona Caird
The WSPU intended to take this action because the Federation meeting, scheduled for 6 December, was to be addressed by Lloyd George , and the WSPU had made a general resolution to seek publicity for...
Textual Production Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR presented a memorandum from the Women's Industrial League to PM David Lloyd George demanding a restructuring of post-war employment policies, to include women in high-paying, skilled industries.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Textual Features Clara Codd
It provides a detailed history of her life so far. Focusing on her work with Theosophy, she also gives details about her upbringing in North Devon and her aversion to the fear-inducing side of Christianity...
Textual Features Rebecca West
Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane , Joseph Conrad , Lloyd George , and Winston Churchill .
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Textual Features Ada Leverson
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...
Reception Rosita Forbes
Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF ; early signatories were the Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister . The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops...
Publishing Annie S. Swan
Sir William Robertson Nicoll , friend of ASS and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton ), proposed to her...
politics Beatrice Webb
The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among...
politics Dorothy Wellesley
By the time DW wrote her autobiography she was a nostalgic reactionary, regretting the days of powerful great families in great country houses, when the servants arrived at morning prayers in order of precedence, with...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF marched in a London procession in support of the Conciliation Bill (which had just been dropped from parliament's schedule by Lloyd George for the second year running); she urged both militants and constitutionalists alike...
politics Margaret Kennedy
MK 's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was...
politics Constance Lytton
CL , with ten other militant suffragettes, was detained after causing a disturbance at a visit of David Lloyd George to Newcastle.
The word suffragette, despite its apparently demeaning diminutive, was at the...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

Timeline

8 December 1908: David Lloyd George denounced suffragette...

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8 December 1908

David Lloyd George denounced suffragette militancy at a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation .

November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...

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November 1909

The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George passed successfully through the House of Commons ; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords .

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

28 July 1910: Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons...

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28 July 1910

Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the Conciliation Bill on suffrage would receive no more attention that session.

20 December 1910: A general election resulted in a tie between...

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20 December 1910

A general election resulted in a tie between the Liberal and Tory parties.

29 May 1911: Lloyd George announced that the Government...

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29 May 1911

Lloyd George announced that the Government would not give full facilities to the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) during the current session, but would do so in the next session.

10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...

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10 August 1911

The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords , bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.

7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...

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7 November 1911

The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith , told members of the People's Suffrage Federation that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.

16 December 1911: The National Insurance Act received Royal...

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16 December 1911

The National Insurance Act received Royal Assent; it introduced maternity benefits (payable to husbands) and covered manual workers from sixteen to seventy employed in certain industries subject to recurrent unemployment.

February 1913: The Women's Social and Political Union began...

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February 1913

The Women's Social and Political Union began a concerted campaign of destruction of public and private property.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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26 May 1915: Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition...

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26 May 1915

Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition government.

7 December 1916: Two days after Asquith resigned from the...

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7 December 1916

Two days after Asquith resigned from the leadership of the British wartime coalition government, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister.

13 January 1917: Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon...

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13 January 1917

Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon was arrested on the testimony of intelligence agents posing as conscientious objectors, along with her two daughters and a genuine conscientious objector they were harbouring.

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

12 January 1919: David Lloyd George's arrival in Paris for...

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12 January 1919

David Lloyd George 's arrival in Paris for the peace conference provoked immediate controversy when he requested that all British dominions should be represented by their own delegations.

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