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David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, the first Welshman to hold the office. He was Chancellor to Herbert Asquith, but took over as PM when Asquith resiged following disagreements over wartime policy in the middle of WW1.

Lloyd George saw Britain to victory in the war, attended the Treaty of Versailles and secured massive war reparations for the UK from Germany, but was voted out in October 1922 to be replaced by the Conservative Andrew Bonar Law.
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