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David Lloyd George and Llansumdewy.   In a little quiet village on the Llyn Peninsula in Wales  there lies Buried,one of England's Greatest and most famous Prime Ministers, David Lloyd George. He didn't want to be buried in London or anywhere else but in a favourite place, that he knew and loved as a child . It is in the village of Llansumdewy , a tiny little place and it was here that as a new widow his mother brought her family, to live with her mother and shoemaker brother, in the late years of the 1800s. It was here also  that  David learned, from his mentor and Uncle,  all the values he was to hold onto in his later political career. I confess that before our visit here I knew little about his life other than the basics but since then I have read up on him and he is totally fascinating . He definitely liked the ladies and was never short of female company. This probably stems from the fact that his mother and sister did everything for him but he was a kind m