History of the British peerage much more common. The peerage ceased to be associated with wealth or land ownership. At the beginning of the century, however, such associations remained for some time. In 1909, Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George proposed the introduction of a land tax, which the landowning peers opposed. The House of Lords rejected the budget. After the general election of January 1910, the returned government introduced the Parliament Bill, which sought to curtail the powers of the Lords. When the Lords attempted to block the bill, the prime minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, threatened to have the king create two hundred
The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger () is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the "Chancellor", told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the "Chancellor" carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive. The crew and passengers of the "Chancellor" are at sea for four months, from September 27, 1869 to January 27, 1870.