David Lloyd George access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener. However, he did succeed in securing the appointment of Sir Eric Geddes to take charge of military railways behind British lines in France, with the honorary rank of major-general. Lloyd George told a journalist, Roy W. Howard, in late September that "the fight must be to a finish – to a knockout", a rejection of President Wilson's offer to mediate. Lloyd George was increasingly frustrated at the limited gains of the Somme Offensive, criticising General Haig to Ferdinand Foch on a visit to the Western Front in September (British casualty ratios
William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby National Liberal politician who later served as Home Secretary under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. The 3rd Viscount Tenby's paternal grandfather was David Lloyd George ("later" the Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), Liberal Prime Minister (1916–1922), who previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908–1915; thus he and his heirs are also in remainder to that earldom. His elder brother, Captain David Lloyd George , served in World War II and succeeded as the 2nd Viscount Tenby in 1967; he died unmarried in 1983. Since 1955, Tenby has been married to Ursula Diana Ethel Medlicott, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Medlicott