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GEORGE DANDIN 



Dissatisfaction with the Asquith 

 regime had culminated after the 

 disastrous result of Rumania's 

 entry into the war. More energy, 

 closer coordination of effort, 

 wider visions were, it was gen- 

 erally felt, essential for winning the 

 war. Asquith's friends accused 

 Lloyd George of intriguing against 

 his chief ; the affair had an under- 

 hand look, and the few days in 

 which it was brought to a head 

 were filled with mysterious man- 

 oeuvres. The effect of the change 

 was useful in giving the world an 

 impression that the war was being 

 more vigorously prosecuted, and 

 the belief in Lloyd George at home 

 was proved by the great majority 

 which returned him and his coal- 

 ition ministry to office just after 

 Germany's submission in 1918. 

 The Peace Conference 



Lloyd George now became one of 

 the arbitrators of Europe's destiny 

 at the Peace Conference, where, 

 without following any decided line 

 of his own, he exercised a moder- 

 ating influence. On the signing of 

 peace, 1919, he received the Order 

 of Merit, and in 1920-22 was the 

 leading figure in the Allies' con- 

 ferences. He resigned the premier 

 ship, Oct. 19, 1922, visited U.S.A. 

 and Canada, 1923, and merged his 

 party, known as National Liberals, 

 with Mr. Asquith's followers in 

 Nov., 1923, when Mr. Baldwin's 

 protectionist policy drew together 

 all shades of liberalism in defence 

 of Free Trade. After his retirement 

 he wrote for the press. 



As a speaker, Lloyd George was 

 delightful. A pleasant voice, an 

 easy manner, skill in gesture and in 

 tune would in any case have made 

 him an orator out of the common. 

 To these he added a Celtic fervour, 

 a Biblical diction, an imaginative 

 quality that lifted his themes out 

 of the political rut, and gave them 

 that touch of " uplift," that re- 

 lation with the deeper yearnings 

 and the idealism of mankind which 

 scarcely ever fails to move an 

 audience. Those who have been 

 charmed by his social gifts of 

 urbanity and humour, his frank 

 admission that there must always 

 be two sides to a case, his readiness 

 to discuss everything quietly and 

 reasonably, were astonished to hear 

 or to read his denunciations on 

 the platform of those who differed 

 from him, his outbursts of fiery 

 zeal, and his solemn prophecies. 

 As soon as he began to speak, he 

 seemed to be a changed man ; he 

 was carried away by his own power 

 of speech ; he was, as it were, in- 

 spired; moreover, he reflected in 

 his speeches to an unusually large 

 degree the temper of the particular 

 audience which he was addressing. 



In 1888 Lloyd George married 

 Margaret, daughter of Richard 

 Owen, of Criccieth, which place he 

 made his home when in Wales. 

 Their family consisted of two sons 

 and three daughters, but one 

 daughter died in 1907. 



Bibliography. Life of Lloyd 

 George, J. H. Edwards, 1913-18; 

 Life of Lloyd George, H. du Parcq, 

 1912-13; David Lloyd George, 

 Harold Spender, 1919; Mr. Lloyd 

 George and the War, W. F. Roch, 

 1920. 



George, SIR ERNEST ( 1839-1922 ). 

 British architect. Born in London, 

 June 13, 1839, he was educated at 

 Brighton, Reading, and the Royal 

 Academy. He received the queen's 

 gold medal of the Royal Institute 

 of British Architects in 1896. 

 President of the Institute 1908-9, 

 he was elected an A.R.A. in 1910, 

 and knighted in 1911. He was 

 elected an R.A. in April, 1917. 

 Examples of his work are to be 

 seen in the Royal Exchange build- 

 ings, the Golders Green crematori- 

 um, the Royal Academy of Music, 

 the Shirpur Palace, India, and in 

 numerous London and country 

 residences, including the restora- 

 tion of Berkeley Castle. He died 

 Dec. 8, 1922. See portrait, p. xxi. 

 George, HENRY (1839-97). 

 American economist. Born at 

 Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1839, he 

 became a 

 printer in 

 California. 

 From that he 

 became a 

 journalist, and 

 while gaining 

 j ournalistic 

 experience he 

 began to study 

 economic 

 questions, 

 and in 1871 he 

 made himself known by his book, 

 Our Land Policy. In 1879 this 

 appeared as Progress and Poverty, 

 and became enormously popular in 

 Europe as well as in America, his 

 proposed solution of the land 

 question finding many supporters. 

 George became the apostle of 

 land nationalisation, which he 

 proposed to bring about by means 

 of the single tax. In 1886 he was a 

 candidate for the mayoralty of 

 New York, and he died Oct. 29, 

 1897. He also wrote Protection and 

 Free Trade, 1886 ; The Ci ndition of 

 Labour, 1891; and Principles of 

 Political Economy, 1898. -See Single 

 Tax ; consult also Life, by his son, 

 Henry George, 1900. 



George, WALTER JORDALL (b. 

 1858). British athlete. Born at 

 Colne, Sept. 9, 1858, his first run- 

 ning event was the mile, at the 

 Notts Football Sports in 1877. He 

 won the Spartan novices' steeple- 



chase of 5 m. at Edmonton in 

 1878. In 1879 he won the mile 

 and the four-miles in the amateur 

 championships 

 at Stain f <> rd 

 Bridge, and 

 also the 10^ m. 

 Midland cross- 

 country cham- 

 pionship. In 

 the U.S.A. in 

 1881, George 

 met the Amer- 

 W. J. George, ican, L. E. 

 British athlete Myers, win- 

 ning in the 



three-quarters and the mile. Dur- 

 ing 1882 he carried off the half, one 

 mile, four, and ten miles at the 

 championship meeting at Stoke- 

 on-Trent, the Midland and national 

 cross country championships, and 

 several challenge cups and prizes. 

 In 1884 he won the half, mile, 

 four miles, and two miles steeple- 

 chase in one afternoon, and the 

 same year created new records for 

 nearly every distance from 1000yds. 

 to 12 m. 



Turning professional in 1885, he 

 made three matches with W. 

 Cummings, but only succeeded in 

 winning the mile. In 1886 they 

 met again, George winning the 

 mile (in the world's record time of 

 4 mins. 12f sees.) and the ten miles. 

 George has won 12 amateur track 

 championships and over 1,000 

 prizes. 



George, WALTER LIONEL (b. 

 1882). British author. Born and 

 educated in Paris, he tried various 

 occupations before taking to jour- 

 nalism in 1907. His first work 

 was France in the 20th Century, 

 1908. His novels, in which he 

 deals outspokenly with life's pro- 

 blems and presents an interesting 

 amalgam of English and French 

 methods, include A Bed of Roses, 

 1911; Israel Kalisch, 1913; The 

 Making of an Englishman, 1914; 

 The Stranger's Wedding, 1916 ; and 

 Caliban, 1920. Deeply interested 

 in feminism and allied subjects, his 

 studies in that direction, Women 

 and To-morrow, 1913, and The In- 

 tellect of Woman, 1917, are notable. 

 George Dandin; ou, LE MARI 

 CONFONDU (George Dandin; or, 

 The Baffled Husband). Three-act 

 comedy by Moliere, first produced 

 at Versailles, July 18, 1668. Dan- 

 din is a rich peasant who marries 

 above his station and has the privi- 

 lege of settling the debts of his 

 wife's parents. They with their 

 daughter render his life wretched, 

 especially by making him out to be 

 wrong when he is right ; hence his 

 remark, Vous 1'avez voulu, vous 

 1'avez voulu, George Dandin ! (You 

 would have it, you would have it, 

 George Dandin !). 



