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Dame Margaret Lloyd George GBE JP (née Owen; 4 November 1864 – 20 January 1941) was a Welsh humanitarian and one of the first seven women magistrates appointed in Britain in 1919. She was the wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George from 1888 until her death in 1941.
Born Margaret Owen in Mynyddednyfed, Wales; died in January 1941; daughter of a prosperous Methodist farmer; became first wife of David Lloyd George (1863–1945, British prime minister, and one of the most dominant international figures of the early 20th century), on January 24, 1888; children: (two sons and three daughters) Richard, Mair ...
Margaret murió el 20 de enero de 1941 en su casa en Surrey, Inglaterra. Fue recordada como una esposa amorosa, una madre dedicada y una figura influyente en la política británica y la sociedad. ¿Quién es la pareja de...?
The senior Evans served as personal physician to Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, during the latter's term as Viceroy of India (1921–26). Her maternal grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, was a daughter of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first wife, Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
After the fall of Lloyd George from power a century ago Mrs Lloyd George continued her humanitarian work, as well as helping both her son Gwilym and her daughter Megan (the first Welsh woman at Westminster) to join their father on the back benches of the House of Commons.
The album of Dame Margaret Lloyd George contains 121 photographs of the Lloyd George family; including Dame Margaret herself, Lady Megan and David Lloyd George. One can also find photographs from conferences in Versailles (1919) and San Remo (1920) in the album, as well as scenes from Clynnog, Chequers, Dinas Dinlle and Eisteddfa, Cricieth.
A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret in her time as wife of the Prime Minister. After a brief intro on her wartime public activities, the book brings to the fore her active political campaigning during Lloyd George's peacetime Premiership from 1918 to 1922.
- Richard Rhys O'Brien
