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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.
England's "first lady" as wife of the prime minister of England. Name variations: Dame Margaret Lloyd George; Margaret Owen.
From the end of the First World War in November 1918 until the fall of the last Liberal-led government in October 1922, Margaret Lloyd George, wife of David Lloyd George of Llanystumdwy , “the Man who Won the War”, pursued an unprecedented series of political campaigns between all compass points of England and Wales.
Margaret Lloyd George nació el 3 de noviembre de 1874 en Criccieth, Gales. Se casó con el político británico David Lloyd George en 1889, convirtiéndose en su compañera de por vida y su mayor apoyo en su carrera política.
The youngest daughter of David Lloyd George and Margaret, his wife; born 22 April 1902. She was educated at Garrett's Hall, Banstead, and in Paris. She was elected M.P. for Anglesey (as a Liberal), 1929-31, and as Ind. Lib. 1931-45. At the General Election of 1951 she was defeated by Cledwyn Hughes (L).
Despite this British context, the Lloyd George family did retain its Welshness, not least through the deliberate and conscious actions of Margaret Lloyd George, the children’s mother. Richard, the oldest son of the Lloyd Georges, wrote of his mother that ‘her love of Wales and everything Welsh was so great as to have left an indelible ...
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.
