Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

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Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, (4 December 1894 – February 14, 1967), was a politician and cabinet minister in the United Kingdom.

The second son of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, he was born at Criccieth in north Wales. Educated at Eastbourne College and Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1915 he became Aide de Camp to Major General Ivor Phillips, commander of the 38th (Welsh) Division. He rose to the rank of Major and was known for most of his political career as Major Lloyd George.

Lloyd George was Liberal MP for Pembrokeshire from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1929 to 1950 (though by the late 1940s he was in effect an Independent Liberal in alliance with the Conservatives) . From 1951 to 1957 he was Liberal and Conservative MP (see National Liberal ) for Newcastle upon Tyne North. He was Parliamentary Secretary at the Board of Trade in 1931 and again from 1939 to 1941, and Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Food 1941–1942. He was Minister of Fuel and Power 1942–1945, Minister of Food 1951–1954, and Home Secretary and Minister for Welsh Affairs from 1954 until his retirement in 1957, when he was raised to the peerage as the 1st Viscount Tenby.

Gwilym Lloyd George married Edna Gwenfron Jones in 1921. They had two children: David Lloyd George, the 2nd Viscount (1922–1983), and William Lloyd George, the 3rd Viscount (born in 1927). Lloyd George's sister Megan was also active in politics.

He opened the Wellington Police Station, Wellington Shropshire on 10th October 1955.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Evan Jones	Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire 1922–1924	Succeeded by Charles Price
Preceded by Charles Price	Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire 1929–1950	Succeeded by Desmond Donnelly
Preceded by Sir Cuthbert Headlam	Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North 1951–1957	Succeeded by William Elliott
Political offices
Preceded by Maurice Webb	Minister of Food 1951–1954	Succeeded by Ministry abolished
Preceded by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe	Home Secretary 1954–1957	Succeeded by Rab Butler
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Viscount Tenby 1957–1967	Succeeded by David Lloyd George