Lady pindling biography

Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling

Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling, widow of the first Prime Minster of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas the late Sir Lynden Pindling, was sworn in as the tenth Governor General of The Bahamas, on July 8, 2014.
 

She had previously served as Deputy to the Governor General, being sworn in for the first time in June, 2012.
 

When the Progressive Liberal Party won control of the government for the first time in January, 1967, she was one of her husband’s hardest-working campaign helpers.

“My dual life began just after our marriage,” she says. “We were married on May 05, 1956, and my husband was first elected to the House of Assembly on June 8th the same year.”
 

Dame Marguerite played an active role in the long, arduous efforts of Sir Lynden and his colleagues that eventually led to Majority Rule in The Bah