Also known as:
LG, by his close colleagues, although not to be confused with that other rising Welsh institution (from South Korea), electronics firm Lucky Goldstar.

Best known for:
Being the last Liberal prime minister, from 1916 to 1922, and guiding Britain towards victory in World War I. Being Welsh (although he was born in Manchester).

Has not hogged the limelight, though:
While the UK's other great wartime leader, Winston Churchill, is immortalised in bronze in Parliament Square, LG is not. Eighty years after the end of the Great War, his admirers plan to change this.

Never lost touch with the people:
Sadly for Mrs Lloyd George, this was true. He had numerous love affairs, including a 30-year affair with his one-time secretary, Frances Stevenson.

His legacy lives on:
Frances Stevenson's daughter, Ruth Longford, claims her mother was born of the affair. Owen Lloyd George, grandson of LG, has denied this.

Head for business:
Perhaps a bit too much - he was done for selling peerages, and also for insider trading of shares in Marconi.

War record still talked about, 80 years on:
True, but not exactly as he might have wished. Many historians say LG scored a handful of battle achievements, and credit him with beating the submarine blockade of Britain.

But his grand strategy was less successful. One plan to place the British army under French command for a single offensive was a total failure. He shared a strained relationship with the force's commander in chief, Douglas Haig. LG went on to negotiate Britain's part in the Treaty of Versailles, which, critics claim, paved the way for the Nazi uprising in 1930s Germany.

Tory MP Alan Clark, who hasn't lost touch with the people either, thinks Lloyd George's war leadership is over-rated and says it would be more fitting to erect a statue to Mrs Thatcher.

Changed the face of Britain:
True to his humble roots, he was a great social reformer, sewing the seeds for the welfare state and pensions, and announced the New Labour-sounding "people's budget" of 1909 which proposed radical tax hikes with a top rate of 9%. This led to a constitutional crisis, and eventually to the 1911 Parliament Act which removed forever the power of veto from the House of Lords.

Changed the face of Ireland:
Negotiated with Sinn Fein, leading to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921, a move which brought about his own downfall.

Changed the face of the Liberal Party:
The Irish deal caused coalition Conservatives to dissent, and ended the Liberal Party as a governing force. There is speculation that the new pact between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown could result in Mr Ashdown getting a cabinet position - it would be the Liberals' first taste of peacetime government since 1922.