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David Lloyd George
Standard Name: Lloyd George, David
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Pat Barker | This book incorporates the experiences, not only of writers turned soldiers and medical scientists turned enablers of fighting, but also of pacifist agitators. The character Beattie Roper is based on the historical Alice Wheeldon
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The couple had met for the first time at Percy Alden
's Canning Town Settlement
in 1899, when Emmeline and Mary Neal had brought the Dramatic Society of the Espérance Working Girls' Club
to Alden's... |
| Friends, Associates | Elinor Glyn | Thnere she met Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George
, who helped to engineer the Versailles Peace Treaty. Her staunchly conservative views made it matter for surprise that she found him much smarter [in appearance]... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Rathbone | This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl
, Winston Churchill
, David Lloyd George
, Robert Cecil |
| Occupation | Gillian Clarke | She and Meic Stephens
had first seen the house in August 1989: a building of Queen Anne appearance, with some parts dating from more than a century earlier, once owned by David Lloyd George
... |
| Occupation | Elinor Glyn | The only other woman to witness the signing was Frances Stevenson
, mistress of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
. |
| 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 | Evelyn Sharp | Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
8 December 1908: David Lloyd George denounced suffragette...
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8 December 1908
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
.
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.
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.
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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.
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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith
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.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
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116-17, 171
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.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
25, 125
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
16
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2024.
(1911): 337-55
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.
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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.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 227
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
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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.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
179-80
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Wheeldon
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.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
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.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
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