Who was Margaret McDonagh? Member of the UK House of the Lords Dead at 61

Margaret McDonagh was a member of the House of the Lords Temporal of the United Kingdom. She became the part’s first female general secretary in 1998, after serving as deputy general secretary the previous year. However, she was considered to have badly mishandled the part’s London mayoral candidate selection process, which resulted in Ken Livingstone winning the 2000 mayoral election as an independent candidate.

She was not always popular with the grassroots and part of the Parliament Part due to her perceived ‘control freakery.’  She stepped down as the general secretary and took a short business course at Harvard University in 2001.

McDonagh died on Saturday, June 24, 2o23, in her home in Colliers Wood, London, at the age of 61. She was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2021, and it is believed that she died of brain cancer as a result of her prolonged illness.

Ten years before her death, she served as the Chair of the Smarter Meter Delivery Body.