Blazon Arms: Azure, and over water barry wavy Argent and Azure, a Bridge of one arch proper, on a Chief Argent, a Portcullis Sable, between two Daffodils, stalked and leaved proper.

It was created in 1945 for Liberal parliamentarian David Lloyd George who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1908 to 1915 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.

[2] He was created Viscount Gwynedd, of Dwyfor in the County of Caernarvon, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, at the same time.

Two of David Lloyd George's children also earned distinction in public life.

The family seat during the 3rd Earl's lifetime was Ffynone House, near Boncath, Pembrokeshire.