Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed as a viper attacking the Constitution. Georgians were for a settlement by compromise. It remained only...
...Government would have been at an end. It was an action of mine which made this a ground of controversy in the Liberal ranks and it was with as much distress as surprise that I found that my public declarations were met with a challenge from a quarter [the Lloyd Georgians] which it was impossible for me to disregard...
Sprightly Invitation. Though the rift between Asquithians and Georgians is too wide for Mr. Lloyd George to step automatically into the leadership of the party he did not neglect to bid for that post last week in a speech at Barnstaple. After referring to "that great Liberal leader, Lord Oxford, one of the most illustrious of the party's brilliant array of leaders," Mr. Lloyd George continued: "It is a crime to waste energy and enthusiasm on personal feuds...
...Liberal Premier (1908) ; abolished the veto power of the House of Lords (1911) ; forced through home rule for Ireland (1914) causing such fury in Ulster that Britain was saved from civil war only by the distraction provided by the World War. He was unhorsed as Premier (1916) by Lloyd George who cleverly made it appear that Britain's early defeats in the World War were due to Asquithian blundering. He lost his seat in the Commons (1918) as Premier Lloyd George swept the country with his "Hang the Kaiser" campaign, but resumed his seat in the House...
Seniors Morton, I.e., Lloyd. Lt.: Moody, I.g; Byahe, c.: Cook, r.g: Ennis, r,t: Graves, r.e.: Pruyn. Q.b.: Norton, ih.b.: F. Eaton, rh.b.: S. Eaton...