Mr Lloyd George. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection. David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM PC (17 January 1863 ? 26 March 1945) was a British Liberal politician and statesman. As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908?1915), Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916?22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of Germany in the Great War.