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O'Brien's second biography of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's wife Margaret serves as a prequel to his first volume, The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George: The Wife of the Prime Minister 1916-1922 (Y Lolfa, 2022), which focused on her campaigns during the 1918-1922 peacetime Coalition Government led by her husband. Similarly based on research in the unpublished archive of letters and speeches belonging to his grandfather the Revd. J T Rhys, former private secretary to Margaret Lloyd George at 10 Downing St, this book describes her six major campaigns during WWI: for her Welsh…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
O'Brien's second biography of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's wife Margaret serves as a prequel to his first volume, The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George: The Wife of the Prime Minister 1916-1922 (Y Lolfa, 2022), which focused on her campaigns during the 1918-1922 peacetime Coalition Government led by her husband. Similarly based on research in the unpublished archive of letters and speeches belonging to his grandfather the Revd. J T Rhys, former private secretary to Margaret Lloyd George at 10 Downing St, this book describes her six major campaigns during WWI: for her Welsh Troops Fund; the British & Foreign Sailors' Society; Welsh Army recruitment; Food & Home Economy; Temperance; Health & Social Welfare. It also looks at her ongoing campaigning for opportunities for women, for churches, and for Wales.
Autorenporträt
Born in Oxfordshire to a Welsh mother, Richard O'Brien was an Oxford Blues captain and represented Wales twice. He has been senior economist with Rothschild Intercontinental Bank, Chief Economist of American Express Bank, Consultant to the World Bank, served on the council at Chatham House and written long term scenarios for the UK Government. He is the author of the bestselling The End of Geography: Global Financial Integration (1991) and has edited or coedited more than a dozen other volumes on international finance and economics. He was a founder member of the SDP and has released six albums as a singer-songwriter.