David Lloyd George land ownership. By the age of twenty-one, he had already read and taken notes on Henry George's "Progress and Poverty". This strongly influenced Lloyd George's politics later in life; the People's Budget drew heavily on Georgist tax reform ideas. Articled to a firm of solicitors in Porthmadog, Lloyd George was admitted in 1884 after taking Honours in his final law examination and set up his own practice in the back parlour of his uncle's house in 1885. The practice flourished, and he established branch offices in surrounding towns, taking his brother William into partnership in 1887. Although many Prime Ministers
Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (15 February 1889 – 1 May 1968) was a British soldier and peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, a member of the House of Lords from 1945 until his death. The son of the Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George by his first wife, Margaret Owen, Lloyd George was educated at Portmadoc School and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1910. During the First World War he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and rose to the rank of Major. He became