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,
George Lloyd (RAF officer) war". After the war, Lloyd emigrated to the United States, where in 1935 he married Martha Boswell (1905–1958), one of The Boswell Sisters, a popular singing trio. Lloyd died in Peekskill, New York, on 15 July 1955. Citations Bibliography George Lloyd (RAF officer) Major George Lawrence Lloyd (1 October 1892 – 15 July 1955) was a Rhodesian-born flying ace of the First World War, credited with eight aerial victories. Lloyd was born in Rhodesia in 1892, which at that time a chartered territory of the British South Africa Company. On 19 November 1915 Lloyd was commissioned as a second lieutenant