Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (15 February 1889 – 1 May 1968) was a British soldier and peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, a member of the House of Lords from 1945 until his death.

The son of the Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George by his first wife, Margaret Owen, Lloyd George was educated at Portmadoc School and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1910. Early in the First World War he and his younger brother Gwilym were commissioned as Temporary Second lieutenants into the 6th (Caernarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers of the Territorial Force, soon transferring to the 15th (Service) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (1st London Welsh) of 'Kitchener's Army'. Richard later transferred to the Royal Engineers and rose to the rank of Major. He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and served in the British Army again during the Second World War.

On 7 April 1917 Lloyd George married Roberta McAlpine (1898–1966), a daughter of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet. They had two children, Valerie Davidia (1918–2000) and Owen (1924–2010), before being divorced in 1933. Valerie married the academic and broadcasting executive, Sir Goronwy Daniel. In 1935 Lloyd George married his second wife, Winifred Emily Peedle, a daughter of Thomas W. Peedle.

He wrote a biography of his mother, Dame Margaret, and one of his father, Lloyd George, which was described by a contemporary reviewer as "a very insignificant book", notable only in that it was the first biography of David Lloyd George to detail his prolific womanising.

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