The Right Honourable
The Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
26 March 1945 – 1 May 1968
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Succeeded byThe 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Personal details
Born(1889-02-15)15 February 1889
Died1 May 1968(1968-05-01) (aged 79)
Spouse
Roberta McAlpine
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(m. 1917; div. 1933)​
ChildrenValerie Davidia
Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Parents

Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (15 February 1889 – 1 May 1968) was a British soldier and peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, a member of the House of Lords from 1945 until his death.

The son of the Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George by his first wife, Margaret Owen, Lloyd George was educated at Portmadoc School and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1910. During the First World War he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and rose to the rank of Major. He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and served in the British Army again during the Second World War.

On 7 April 1917 Lloyd George married Roberta McAlpine (1898–1966), a daughter of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet. They had two children, Valerie Davidia (1918–2000) and Owen (1924–2010), before being divorced in 1933. In 1935 Lloyd George married his second wife, Winifred Emily Peedle, a daughter of Thomas W. Peedle.[1] Valerie also remarried, and became the wife of the academic and broadcasting executive, Sir Goronwy Daniel.[2]

On 1 January 1945, his father was created Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, and he gained the courtesy title of Viscount Gwynedd. Less than three months later, on 26 March 1945, his father died of cancer and he inherited the peerage, becoming the first member of the family to sit in the House of Lords, his father having been too ill to do so.[1]

He wrote a biography of his mother, Dame Margaret, and one of his father, Lloyd George, which was described by a contemporary reviewer as "a very insignificant book", notable only in that it was the first biography of David Lloyd George to detail his prolific womanising.[3]

Works

  • Lloyd George, Richard (1947). Dame Margaret: The Life Story of His Mother. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
  • Lloyd George, Richard (1960). Lloyd George. London: Frederick Muller Limited.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, p. 2375
  2. ↑ Meic Stephens (20 January 2003). "Sir Goronwy Daniel". The Independent. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  3. ↑ McCready, H. W. (1961). "Lloyd George by Richard Lloyd George (review)". The Canadian Historical Review. 42 (3): 245–246. ISSN 1710-1093.


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