Budget League November, it staged 3,564 meetings with a total registered attendance of 1,436,827 people (approximately 1 in 5 of the registered electorate in Great Britain). Budget League The Budget League was a British pressure group formed in 1909 by Winston Churchill to publicly campaign in favour of David Lloyd George's People's Budget in reaction to the activities of the Budget Protest League. The foundation of the League had not been discussed in the Cabinet and when Sir Henry Norman requested Cabinet ministers to speak at its meetings, nearly all of them refused to participate. However, after Jack Pease issued a circular
George Lloyd-Jacob 1918–21. He was called to the bar in 1893 and took silk in 1945. From 1937–45, Lloyd-Jacob served as junior counsel to the Board of Trade on patent matters. He was appointed to the High Court in January 1950 and was knighted by King George VI the next month. In 1967, in a 49-day patent case he was hearing, defendants Rolls-Royce – who were being sued over a dispute over engine patents – insured Lloyd-Jacob's life for £100,000 until the end of the case. He died unexpectedly in Surrey at age 72. George Lloyd-Jacob Hon. Sir George Harold Lloyd-Jacob (1