British politician, leader of the Liberal Party (1945–56), born in Llanfyllin, Powys, E Wales, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1909. Elected MP for Montgomeryshire in 1929, he held his seat until his death. Although offered a post as education secretary in Churchill's 1951–5 government, he declined, and saved the Liberal Party from being subsumed in the Conservative Party (as had the National Liberals). In doing this, he lost his only chance of holding office, but put Party above career.