William Frederick Lloyd

Sir William Frederick Lloyd PC KCMG (* 1864 in Stockport , Devon , England ; † 13. June 1937 in St. John's , Newfoundland ) was a Canadian politician of the Liberal Party and from 1918 to 1919 Prime Minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland .

Life

Lloyd was involved in the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Party at the beginning of the 20th century and supported the election campaign of Robert Bond , who became Prime Minister in March 1900. In 1904 he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the first time to the House of Representatives of the colony of Newfoundland , where he represented the constituency of Trinity . In the general elections in 1908 he suffered a defeat in his candidacy in the constituency of Port de Grave , left the House of Representatives and decided not to run in the early elections in 1909.

In the general election of 1913 he was re-elected as a representative of the Trinity constituency in the House of Representatives and belonged to the liberal opposition to Prime Minister Edward Morris . After Robert Bond resigned as chairman of the Liberal Party in 1914, James M. Kent was his successor. In 1916, Lloyd was elected as the new chairman of the provincial Liberal Party and thus also the leader of the opposition to Prime Minister Morris.

In 1917, however, he joined the coalition led by Morris as Attorney General after the planned general elections were postponed to 1918 because of the First World War .

After the resignation of Edward Morris on December 31, 1917, he was initially acting Prime Minister and charged with the formation of a new government. On January 5, 1918, he finally became the 13th Prime Minister of Newfoundland. During his tenure, he led in April 1918, the military and moved at the same time the necessary general elections in 1919. In 1918 he was not only a member of the British Privy Council ( Privy Council ) , but at the same time Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and as such carried the title sir . After the end of the First World War he was one of the delegates of the United Kingdom and its Dominions to the participants of the Paris Peace Conference .

When he returned to Newfoundland from the peace conference, it was six years since the last general election. Despite clear signs of emerging political dissatisfaction, he announced on April 10, 1919, a further postponement of the elections, but then resigned on May 22, 1919 as Prime Minister of the Dominion Newfoundland.

He later became the Registrar of the Supreme Court. In May 1924 Prime Minister Albert Hickman appointed him as Minister of Justice in his interim government, which was in office for one month until June 1924.

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