Margaret Lloyd George

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Dame Margaret Lloyd George, GBE (1866–20 January 1941) was the first wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

Born Margaret Owen, she was a daughter of Richard Owen of Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, a well-to-do farmer. On 1 January 1888, she married Lloyd George and they had five children:

• Richard, later 2nd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1889-1968)
• Mair (1890-1907)
• Olwen Elizabeth (1892-1990)
• Gwilym, later 1st Viscount Tenby (1894-1967)
• Megan (1902-1966)

In 1920, during her husband's premiership, Margaret was appointed a GBE. She died in 1941 (four years before her husband was raised to the Peerage) after a period of illness following a fall when she injured her hip. Her husband later married his secretary, Frances Stevenson in 1943.