People's Budget People's Budget The 1909/1910 People's Budget was a proposal of the Liberal government that introduced unprecedented taxes on the lands and high incomes of Britain's wealthy to fund new social welfare programmes. It passed the House of Commons in 1909 but was blocked by the House of Lords for a year and became law in April 1910. It was championed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and his young ally Winston Churchill, who was then President of the Board of Trade and a fellow Liberal; called the "Terrible Twins" by certain Conservative contemporaries. Churchill's biographer, William Manchester,
E. S. Lloyd Christopher Lloyd. Lloyd arrived in Madras on 21 December 1894 and served as Assistant Collector and Magistrate. In September 1902, he was appointed District Collector and magistrate, Bangalore. Lloyd was appointed President of Madras Corporation in 1906 and served till 1910. In his later life, Lloyd served as Revenue Secretary and Finance Secretary of Madras Presidency. For a brief while in 1923, he also acted as Chief Secretary. Lloyd died in 1945. Lloyd was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in the New Year Honours of 1924. E. S. Lloyd Ernest Sampson Lloyd (26 May