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In 1947, Lloyd George's Former Private Secretary, A. J. Sylvester, Published THE REAL LLOYD GEOrgE In 1947, Lloyd George’s former private secretary, A. J. Sylvester, published The Real Lloyd George, an insider’s look at Lloyd George as he really was. Although much of the contents of the book were pedestrian, it still remains an important addition to the huge Lloyd George bibliography, if only because of its author’s closeness to his subject from 1923 until his death twenty-two years later, and his habit of keeping a full diary of the events which he observed at first hand. Dr J. Graham Jones discusses the classic A. J. Sylvester and lbert James Sylvester age and secured employment as a Lloyd George. semi-biographical (1889–1989) experi- clerk at Charrington’s brewery. enced a quite unique During these years he attended work, and assesses its life and career.1 Born evening classes in shorthand and impact and reactions at Harlaston, Stafford- typing, gained professional quali- Ashire, the son of a tenant farmer of fications in these subjects and to its contents and very modest means, he was com- attained champion speeds in both pelled by family poverty to leave skills. He then migrated to Lon- influence. school at just fourteen years of don in 1910, eventually setting 4 Journal of Liberal History 51 Summer 2006 THE REAL LLOYD GEOrgE up his own business as a freelance of Caernarfon Boroughs. He also on indispensable, begged him to shorthand writer at Chancery made the practical arrangements remain in post. This was espe- Lane, before, early in the First for Lloyd George’s numerous cially true during the autumn World War, securing a position as trips overseas, and, increasingly of 1944 after Lloyd George and a stenographer (shorthand writer) as the 1930s ran their course, he Frances had returned to live in in the office of M. P. A. Hankey was regularly in attendance at their new North Wales home, (later Lord Hankey), who was at Westminster, acting as his employ- Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy. Syl- the time Secretary to the Com- er’s ‘eyes and ears’ in the House vester soon began to resent stay- mittee of Imperial Defence and of Commons. Sylvester was also ing on indefinitely in this remote thus at the heart of the Allied war much involved in the research and area and threatened to return to campaign. This auspicious move preparation of the mammoth War the south-east, feeling that he was to launch Sylvester on his Memoirs which occupied so much had been badly treated by his professional career. He became of Lloyd George’s time during the employers – who implored him the first man ever to take short- long 1930s. He undertook some to remain in their service: hand notes of the proceedings of of the research himself, arranged a cabinet meeting – a truly pio- for the classification of the mas- Frances assured me that things neering task. sive archive of official and private would be all right for me later. In 1916 he became Hankey’s papers which Lloyd George had (All she did was to double cross private secretary, and in 1921 took accumulated, and conducted often me, and she did NOTHING.) up a similar position in the employ lengthy interviews with many In this controversy LG himself of David Lloyd George, then former ministers of the crown. said not a word to me: neither I Prime Minister of the post-war Sylvester was also heavily impli- to him. The whole attitude and coalition government. Although cated in his employer’s complex, atmosphere was: He must not be he initially remained at 10 Down- bizarre personal and family life, bothered about things like this’2 ing Street when his employer fell becoming closely involved with from power in the autumn of almost all members of the sprawl- Lloyd George died at Ty Newydd 1922, a year later Sylvester gladly ing Lloyd George family, spanning on 26 March 1945. Sylvester, who rejoined his ‘old chief’ as Princi- three generations, and experienc- had been present at the deathbed pal Private Secretary (a title upon ing an especially delicate relation- Sylvester scene, suddenly found himself out which he himself insisted), remain- ship with Frances Stevenson, LG’s … became of a job for the first time in his life, ing in this position for more than secretary, mistress and eventually at fifty-five years of age. Within two decades until Lloyd George’s (from October 1943) his second the first days of her husband’s death, death in March 1945. wife. Frances told him in no uncertain In this privileged position his A. J. Sylvester remained loyally man ever terms that she had resolved to dis- duties were necessarily wide- in Lloyd George’s employ until pense with his services. The man ranging, onerous and demanding. the very end, long after it was to to take who had been considered indis- He ran Lloyd George’s London his personal advantage to remain shorthand pensable as long as Lloyd George office at Thames House, Westmin- in the position. After Lloyd lived was now, it seemed, suddenly ster (which sometimes employed George had married Frances, Syl- notes of dispensable. Any aspirations which a staff of more than twenty indi- vester often felt uncomfortable, Sylvester might reasonably have viduals), he dealt, often on his even embarrassed, at the new the pro- entertained that he might have own initiative, with his employer’s situation which had arisen. Yet, been kept on to collaborate with massive postbag, he acted as LG’s when he displayed any inclina- ceedings of the Dowager Countess (as she press officer and responded to tion to depart for a new career, a cabinet had now become) in perpetuat- most of the requests and demands both Lloyd George and Frances, ing LG’s good name and memory, which came from his constituency clearly considering him nigh- meeting. and in working on the massive and Journal of Liberal History 51 Summer 2006 5 THE REAL LLOYD GEORGE important archive of papers left by By the time ran to more than 200,000 words. simultaneous publication on both him, had been cruelly and finally A diary which its compiler had sides of the Atlantic. The text was, dashed. It should be noted, how- of Lloyd originally intended to be a pri- however, generally badly received ever, that he was given three years’ vate record was now to be made by readers in the USA: ‘The book salary, a substantial sum, in lieu George’s available to the public at large. is an intimate, gossipy record of of notice, and that he also inher- Although Sylvester was himself political anecdotes and small talk ited the sum of £1,000 under the death Syl- a competent and accurate typist, centering around Lloyd George terms of Lloyd George’s will. vester’s his voluminous text was retyped … We don’t believe there would Sylvester’s first subsequent by Alex McLachlan of St Leon- be a large enough market for it employment after Lloyd George’s diaries ards, Sussex, who made use of to justify publication by us.’; ‘The death was on the staff of Lord economy spacing so that it might author intrudes himself into every Beaverbrook at the Daily Express were an be published as a single volume situation, thus making them seem on a three-year contract. From his by Cassell & Co. the following more trivial than they may actu- earliest forays into British public immensely year. Sylvester was himself a little ally have been.’; ‘We old people life during World War One, Syl- detailed, unhappy with the proposed title may know of Lloyd George, but vester had been an instinctive, ‘The Real Lloyd George’, fearing he is only a name to a great many compulsive note-taker, a practice percep- that it ‘might possibly produce and a name in not too good odor naturally much facilitated by his the idea that the book contains an [sic] at that’.5 It was quite clear fluent shorthand. He wrote espe- tive source attack which it does not’. Rather, that the idea of simultaneous cially detailed notes on the semi- he proposed ‘Lloyd George as I publication on both sides of the nal events which he witnessed, of quite Knew Him’, ‘The Lloyd George Atlantic was a non-starter. and at times he took to keeping unique I Knew’, or ‘Lloyd George – a A little later Sylvester a diary, albeit spasmodically. Many Close Up’. The publishers, how- approached a number of editors of those around him, especially informa- ever, preferred to stick with the of British newspapers requesting the eminent newspaper propri- original title. them to publish lengthy extracts etor Lord Riddell, impressed tion about As the publishers began to from The Real Lloyd George as a upon him that he should record make arrangements for the pub- series to whet the appetite of the in detail everything that Lloyd the former lication of the volume, Sylvester post-war British public prior to George did or said. The result was Prime Min- forwarded a copy of the type- the book’s subsequent appearance that certainly from 1931 onwards script to his employer Lord Bea- as a monograph. The proposal Sylvester went to great pains to ister and verbrook in the hope that the was sympathetically considered, chronicle his famous employer’s press magnate might adhere to but eventually rejected, by the doings and sayings. It became his family, his previous half-promise that Evening Standard and the Sunday his regular pattern late at night extracts might be published in the Express. As paper was in notably to keep his diary in his meticu- intermin- Sunday Express prior to the vol- short supply during this period of lous Pitman’s shorthand, partly gled with ume’s appearance: ‘The mere pos- severe austerity in the late 1940s, to achieve speed, partly for secu- sibility of such a book has been editors tended to shy away from rity reasons.
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