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  • The first pension was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1911. Mr Thomas Thomas, a blacksmith of Gwyddelwern, Merionethshire, was the first in Wales to be paid the old age pension. Mr Thomas is shown here alongside the five shilling piece he received.
'Lloyd George's Crown' - the first pension to be issued in 1911
Welsh ballad praising Lloyd George's Pension and Insurance Bill, page 1