Margaret Lloyd George

Dame Margaret Lloyd George, GBE (née Owen; 4 November 1864 – 20 January 1941) was the first wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George from 1888 until her death in 1941.

She was born on 4 November 1864 to Richard Owen, an elder of Capel Mawr of Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, a well-to-do Methodist farmer and valuer.

On 1 January 1888, she married Lloyd George. Her father initially disapproved of Lloyd George. They had five children:

• Richard, later 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1889–1968)
• Mair Eluned (1890–1907)
• Olwen Elizabeth, Lady Carey Evans, DBE (3 April 1892 – 2 March 1990); she married Major Sir Thomas John Carey Evans (died 25 August 1947) in 1917 at London's Welsh Baptist Chapel. She was the grandmother of Margaret MacMillan and great-grandmother of historian Dan Snow
• Gwilym, later 1st Viscount Tenby (1894–1967)
• Lady Megan Arfon (1902–1966)

In 1918, during her husband's premiership, Margaret was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) after raising over £200,000 for war charities.

On 8 December 1920, Margaret Lloyd George visited Leeds and stayed with Lady Airedale whose home was nearby. Baroness Airedale "expressed her great pleasure at the presence of Dame Margaret Lloyd George at the very successful reception at Leeds, to which over 150 prominent ladies of Coalition Liberal sympathies were invited from all parts of Yorkshire".

Margaret Lloyd George had earlier presided over a meeting on 21 October 1920, at which the Young Wales Association was founded. This meeting, at the Portman Rooms, Baker Street, was attended by over 400 members of the London Welsh community. Margaret Lloyd George subsequently became its President (from 1921 to 1922). The Young Wales Association, which afterwards became the London Welsh Trust, runs the London Welsh Centre on Gray's Inn Road, London, which she opened on 29 November 1930.

She died at her home in Criccieth, Wales on 20 January 1941 after a period of illness following a fall when she injured her hip.

Her husband later married his secretary and long-term mistress, Frances Stevenson, in 1943. Four years after her death, her husband was raised to the Peerage.