id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1429 David Lloyd George - Wikipedia .html text/html 25458 2546 73 He is so far the only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh[a] and to have spoken English as a second language.[3] His father, a schoolmaster, died in 1864 and he was raised in Wales by his mother and her shoemaker brother, whose Liberal politics and Baptist faith strongly influenced Lloyd George; the same uncle helped the boy embark on a career as a solicitor after leaving school. Uncertain of which wing to follow, Lloyd George moved a resolution in support of Chamberlain at a local Liberal Club and travelled to Birmingham to attend the first meeting of Chamberlain's National Radical Union, but he had his dates wrong and arrived a week too early.[12]:53 In 1907, he told Herbert Lewis that he thought Chamberlain's plan for a federal solution correct in 1886 and still thought so, that he preferred the unauthorised programme to the Whig-like platform of the official Liberal Party, and that "If Henry Richmond, Osborne Morgan and the Welsh members had stood by Chamberlain on an agreement as regards the disestablishment, they would have carried Wales with them".[12]:53 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1429.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1429.txt