Olwen Carey Evans

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Olwen Elizabeth Carey Evans DBE (née Lloyd George) was a Welsh humanitarian and the daughter of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. She was born on 3 April 1892 at Bryn Awelon, Criccieth, the third child of Lloyd George and his wife Margaret. In 1917 she married Captain Thomas Carey Evans, a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who would be knighted in 1924. They had four children: Margaret, Eiluned, Robert, and David.

During the First World War Olwen served with the British Red Cross Society in the Voluntary Aid Detachment and worked as a cook on the Western Front. She received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. After the war her husband worked in London and became the first medical superintendent of Hammersmith Hospital in 1936.

Olwen continued to be active in charity work, serving as honorary or local president for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the Royal Society for the Blind, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In 1969 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public services to Wales. She published a memoir in 1985, Lloyd George was My Father. She died on 2 March 1990 at her farm Eisteddfa near Criccieth after a short illness, the last surviving child of David Lloyd George.