1. I. Packer, Lloyd George, Liberalism, and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics, 1906–1914 (Woodbridge, 2001) devotes a concluding chapter to ‘The strange death of the land issue’ (pp. 178–93), which has a more purely party-political explanation than the one advanced here.
2. Land Tenure Reform Association, Report of the Inaugural Meeting (1871), pp. 9–10.
3. A. Offer, Property and Politics, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, 1981), p. 394; and see below, pp. 266–7.
4. See also B. Gilbert, ‘David Lloyd George: The Reform of British Landholding and the Budget of 1914’, Historical Journal, 22 (1978), 117–41.
5. Ibid., 23 June 1926, p. 18. For Pretyman’s role in 1909–14 and the formation of the Land Union, see Offer, Property and Politics, pp. 366–7, 382, 398; M. Fforde, Conservatism and Collectivism, 1886–1914 (Edinburgh, 1990), pp. 110–17.