Budget Protest League past made sacrifices to avoid. In reaction to the formation of this League there was formed a Budget League—chaired by Winston Churchill—to promote the "People's Budget". Budget Protest League The Budget Protest League was a British pressure group formed in June 1909 and led by Walter Long to oppose David Lloyd George's "People's Budget" outside of Parliament. The League attacked the Budget's Finance (1909-10) Act 1910 as Socialist because of its income tax rises, increased death duties, and a land value tax in order to redistribute this to old age pensions. It was not linked to tariff reform. It produced
George Butler Lloyd Cemetery in Longden Road. George Butler Lloyd George Butler Lloyd (8 January 1854-28 March 1930) was a British banker and Liberal Unionist politician. He was the eldest son of William Butler Lloyd (1825-1874), a banker, of Monkmoor Hall, Shrewsbury, and Preston Montford, Shropshire, and his wife Jane Amelia, who was fifth daughter of the Reverend George Hunt of Wivenhoe, Northamptonshire, and sister of George Ward Hunt, who became a cabinet minister under Benjamin Disraeli. He was born at Monkmoor Hall in 1854, and was educated at Marlborough College and St John’s College, Cambridge. He entered his family's banking firm of