TV star Snow aids appeal to raise funds for Lloyd George museum
TV historian Dan Snow is backing a campaign to keep alive the legacy of former prime minister David Lloyd George.
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary since Lloyd George became PM. He remains the first and only Welsh-speaking PM and the last Liberal to hold the position.
Former solicitor Lloyd George went on to lead the coalition government through the First World War before playing a key role in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that re-shaped Europe. One Show presenter Snow, who is the late politician’s great-great-grandson and also son of TV journalist Peter Snow, is lending his support to a £250,000 appeal to refurbish the Lloyd George museum in Gwynedd, north Wales.
He said: “David Lloyd George is one of the most fascinating figures in British history. An anti-war radical who became the most powerful man in the British empire, at its zenith and oversaw a vastly expensive and brutal war. A man who laid the foundations of our welfare state. The first prime minister to emerge from a working class background and the only Welsh speaking prime minister ever.”
“We need to have a healthy museum to commemorate this remarkable man, not in London, but in the place where he grew up and formed so many of his deeply held political opinions.”
The Lloyd George Premiership Centenary Appeal aims to raise muchneeded funds to help develop the Lloyd George museum.
It was launched by the friends of the Lloyd George Museum, as the Welsh firebrand’s family gathered at Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, to mark his birthday.