The Garden Suburb is the name given to a collection of ministerial positions created by the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in December 1916, to help facilitate the running of World War I.
[2][3] Known as the Prime Minister's personal secretariat and private "brain trust", the Garden Suburb included the likes of Professor W. G. S. Adams, Lord Milner, Philip Kerr and Waldorf Astor.
Their function is to emerge from their huts in Downing Street, like the competitors in a Chinese examination, with answers to our thousand questions of the Sphinx.
"[6] The references to Empire, Balliol and Heidelburg were made because of Lord Milner, a Balliol-educated, German-born staunch imperialist and loyal ally of Lloyd George, and member of the Prime Minister's War Cabinet.
[8][9] While the Prime Minister and his War Cabinet were initially confronted by problems with Greece, President Wilson's Peace Note, and Lloyd George's desire to expand the War beyond the Western Front, the Garden Suburb shouldered all peacetime duties, like military questions, foreign and colonial affairs, and labour matters.