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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 ...
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.
The family backgrounds of both David and Margaret Lloyd George placed them in the social stratum that desired to take the leadership of the democratic Welsh people or gwerin.
- Paul Ward
- 2005
After a period of illness where she injured her hip following a fall, Dame Margaret Lloyd George died on the 20 January 1941. Because of snow drifts David Lloyd George was trapped in Denbighshire and could not be with his wife at the end of her life.
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
20 de nov. de 2022 · The book The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George: The Wife of the Prime Minister 1916-1922 by Richard Rhys O'Brien explores the life and achievements of the Welsh-born wife of David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister. It reveals her role in politics, charity, temperance and Welsh culture during a turbulent period of British history.
