David Lloyd George storm when the Conservatives, with covert support from the First Sea Lord, Admiral Jackie Fisher, campaigned for more with the slogan "We want eight and we won't wait". This resulted in Lloyd George's defeat in Cabinet and the adoption of estimates including provision for eight dreadnoughts. In 1909, Lloyd George introduced his People's Budget, imposing a 20% tax on the unearned increase in value of land, payable at death of the owner or sale of the land, and ½ d. on undeveloped land and minerals, increased death duties, a rise in income tax, and the introduction of Supertax on income
George Lloyd (scholar) Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1779. George Lloyd (scholar) George Lloyd (1708 – 4 December 1783) was an English Fellow of the Royal Society. George Lloyd was the son of Gamaliel Lloyd, a merchant and manufacturer in Manchester, and his wife, Sarah. He was born in 1708 and took the degree of M.B. at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1731. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1737, being sponsored as "a gentleman well-skilled in mathematical knowledge and natural philosophy". He rented Alkrington Hall from the Lever family before buying Hulme Hall as his