Dame Margaret Lloyd George 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.
Olwen Elizabeth, Lady Carey Evans ; she married Major Sir Thomas John Carey Evans in 1917 at London's Welsh Baptist Chapel. She was the grandmother of Margaret MacMillan and great-grandmother of television presenter Dan Snow.
In 1918, during her husband's premiership, Margaret was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire after raising over £200,000 for war charities. On 24 December 1919, the day after the Sex Disqualification Act 1919 received Royal Assent, Margaret Lloyd George was one of the first seven women to be appointed as a Magistrate, alongside Lady Crewe, Lady Londonderry, Elizabeth Haldane, Gertrude Tuckwell, Beatrice Webb and Mary Augusta Ward. She was the first Welsh woman to hold this office. 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. 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 served on Criccieth Urban District Council from 1919 until her death, including three years as its chairman, was the first female Justice of the Peace in Caernarfonshire, and was president of the Women's Liberal Federation of North and South Wales.
Death
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.
