David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

David Lloyd George: the Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley: review

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  • Anthony Howard on Roy Hattersley's excellent new biography of David Lloyd George
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    • The Great Outsider

    This book meanders along, every sentence and paragraph festooned with facts. More from The Telegraph. Hattersley is never a prude. I listened to his silver voice, observed his mastery over his audience … Although he spoke almost entirely in Welsh, I felt myself in some mysterious way drawn into the orbit of his personality'. Want to Read saving….

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    More from the web. A n outcry greeted the memoirs, or at least the money paid for them. Was it right that a prime minister who had led his country in a bloody war should now make a huge profit for himself? After some awkward hesitation came an announcement that proceeds from the book would be "devoted to charities connected with the relief of suffering caused by the war.

    He feels unable to take any personal advantage for himself". That was the summer of , and the prime minister was David Lloyd George, still in office though not for much longer.

    Anthony Howard on Roy Hattersley's excellent new biography of David Lloyd George

    This entertaining and illuminating biography was already off the presses before history repeated itself and we were told that the proceeds from A Journey would go to the Royal British Legion, and so Roy Hattersley was unable to make any comparisons, but they will strike his readers.

    So much of what was written about Lloyd George, by himself and especially by Lord Beaverbrook, is unreliable, that a biographer has to begin by sifting through the mythmaking.

    The famous Welshman was born in in Manchester, and his real name was "George" tout court , but north Wales was where young David grew up, and it would be his political base, even if he visited it as rarely as possible for most of his life. He later made much of his poverty-stricken childhood, far too much if other members of his family were to be believed.

    And if his formal education wasn't lengthy, it was sufficient for him to become a solicitor. He plunged into Liberal politics, and in , before he was 30, he had won a byelection for Caernarvon Boroughs, whose MP he would be for 55 years. Like Disraeli, he was an exotic who knew he couldn't forge a political career by modesty and restraint.

    From the start, Lloyd George assailed his foes in savagely unfair language, with what Hattersley calls an entirely gratuitous attack on Joseph Chamberlain, and another rabble-rousing speech whose peroration was "absolute gibberish". A man who would lead his country to victory in one war became a national figure by denouncing another.

    Lloyd George's speeches against the Boer war were broken up with great violence — at one meeting he had to escape through the back door disguised as a policeman — and one Tory MP regretted that he hadn't been killed. Four years later Lloyd George was a cabinet minister, and 15 years later he was prime minister heading a predominantly Tory government. Some of the great questions of a century ago still resonate: But a vast amount of time was spent on sectarian questions which are now as remote as the French Wars of Religion.

    Lloyd George and his allies won their fight for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales.

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    But protestant nonconformity is of no moment at all in modern England, or even Wales. Who knows whether the "Campbellite Baptists", the little sect in which Lloyd George grew up, even still exists? There are a few minor slips. Roger Casement was hanged rather than shot, not that it now makes much difference to him, and Irish history in general is not Hattersley's strong suit.

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