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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.
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
20. Nov. 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.
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.
- Paul Ward
- 2005
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
