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
Margaret Lloyd George Margaret Lloyd George Dame Margaret Lloyd George ("née" Owen; 4 November 1864 – 20 January 1941) was the wife of British statesman David Lloyd George from 1888 until her death in 1941. She was born on 4 November 1864 to Richard Owen, an elder of Capel Mawr of Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, a well-to-do Methodist farmer and valuer. She was educated at Dr Williams' School for Girls, Dolgelley. On 1 January 1888, she married Lloyd George. Her father initially disapproved of him. They had five children: In 1918, during her husband's premiership, Margaret was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of