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The Mirrors of Downing Street - Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Harold Begbie
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THE RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

Born, Manchester, 1863; son of the late Wm. George, Master of the
Hope Street Unitarian Schools, Liverpool. Educated in a Welsh
Church School and under tutors. By profession a solicitor.
President of the Board of Trade, 1905-8; Chancellor of the
Exchequer, 1908-15; Minister of Munitions, 1915-16; Secretary for
War, 1916; Prime Minister, 1916-20.




CHAPTER I

MR. LLOYD GEORGE

_"And wars, like mists that rise against the sun,
Made him but greater seem, not greater grow."_

DRYDEN.


If you think about it, no one since Napoleon has appeared on the earth
who attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George. This is a
rather startling thought.

It is significant, I think, how completely a politician should
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