Interesting Facts about Lady Megan Lloyd George

"Little Miss Megan of Downing Street" has gained a new title as a result of the elevation of her famous father, David Lloyd George, to the ranks of the British nobility. She is now known in official circles and in government files as Lady Megan Lloyd George; but her friends and her many acquaintances — from the policeman who guards the entrances of Downing Street or Whitehall to her colleagues in the House of Commons — will go on calling her "Miss Megan." And she prefers it so, for she has always been known by that name since her childhood, the greater part of which she spent in Downing Street and in the neighboring houses.

No. 11 was her home from the time she was six years old until she reached thirteen, in the days when her father was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Then, on her twentieth birthday, she moved to No. 10, where she lived throughout the whole period of her father's premiership, except when she went away to schools in Britain and in Paris to finish her studies. Most of the famous statesmen of the world met "little Miss Megan" in those days and came to know her by that name.

Nowadays her happiest days are those when she is in her country house, far from London, which she shares with her married sister, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, passing the time in cooking, sewing, and cleaning house. Sometimes she spends a week or two of her parliamentary holidays at her ancestral home in North Wales, the house her mother left her.

Even so, she finds ample time to be the busiest of the women members in parliamentary work, and she is perhaps the most widely known of them among the members of the various parties.

Her first speech as a member of the House of Commons, fifteen years ago, was a complete success: the House was packed with members, and all the ministers were present to see whether "little Miss Megan" would live up to her father's good opinion of her. And great was their astonishment when they satisfied themselves of the truth of what her father had said of her. From that time to this she has carried on her campaign for the improvement of the state of rural housing. During the last world war she was chairman of an advisory committee whose task was to give the government sound advice on the problem of houses and housing after the war.

During the last three years her fame has spread as a political speaker on the wireless: she has given several talks over the BBC in which she outshone all her fellow members. She is an eloquent speaker in English, as she is in her beloved native Welsh.

It may be amusing to note that she is the only one among her fellow women members — save a single one — in her boldness in stating her true age in the records of the House, for she is 42 years old. And yet, if she is elected at the coming general election, she will become the Mother of the House of Commons by virtue of the length of time she will have served as a member, for hers will then be the longest service of any woman; and her father was called the Father of Parliament, having sat in it for 54 years.