Margarette Golding
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| name = Margarette "Peggy" Golding
| image = Margarette_Golding_died_1939.png
| caption = as a nurse
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|11|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1939|1881}}
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| known_for = founding the Inner Wheel Club
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| occupation = nurse and Company director
| spouse = Oliver Golding
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| nationality = British
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Margarette "Peggy" Golding (born Margarette Owen; November 1881 – 1939) was a Welsh born nurse and businessperson who was the founder of the "Inner Wheel" club in Manchester that has grown to be an international organisation - originally open to the wives of members of the Rotary Club only, but now open to all.
Life
Golding was born in Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1881 and her family then moved to Hay on Wye. Golding trained as a nurse.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-birthplace-international-womens-12816962|title=North Wales birthplace of international women's group founder revealed|last=Crump|first=Eryl|date=2017-04-08|website=northwales|access-date=2019-04-21}} She married Oliver Golding.{{cite book|author=Jay French|title=Inner Wheel: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rm3AAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland|page=24}}
Women had been involved informally in the Rotary Club's work but discrimination prevented then from becoming members in their own right. Margarette Golding persuaded 26 other wives to meet her at a room she had reserved at Herriott's Turkish Baths in Deansgate in Manchester. They met on 15 November 1923 where it was agreed to create a partner organisation to the Rotary Club which would assist the club in their role and provide a social benefit to its members. The first official meeting was on 10 January 1924{{Cite web|title=Inner Wheel Day - International Inner Wheel|url=https://www.internationalinnerwheel.org/about-iiw/inner-wheel-day.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.internationalinnerwheel.org}} at their regular meeting place of the Social Club in Lower Mosley Street, Manchester.{{Cite web|url=http://www.internationalinnerwheel.org/about-iiw/history-of-the-iiw/the-first-ten-years.html|title=History of the first 10 years|website=Inner Wheel}}
Golding founded and named the Inner Wheel organisation for the wives of members of the Rotary Club.{{Cite web|url=https://www.innerwheel.co.uk/about/history/margaret-golding.html|title=Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in GB&I - A truly remarkable woman with great courage, foresight, intelligence and business acumen|website=www.innerwheel.co.uk|access-date=2019-09-01}} There were other similar groups in Britain, but it was Golding who organised them into a national organisation under the name of the Inner Wheel.{{cite journal|author=Rotary International|title=The Rotarian|journal=The Rotarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|date=April 1982|publisher=Rotary International|pages=22–25|issn=0035-838X}}
Legacy
Golding has a plaque in Hay on Wye where she grew up. It was thought at one time that she had been born there. In 2008, Inner Wheel had nearly 100,000 members in 102 countries and was one of the largest women's organisations with consultative status at the United Nations.{{cite book|title=2008 Proceedings: Ninety-Ninth Annual Convention of Rotary International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owsLWa0f184C&pg=PA28|publisher=Rotary International|pages=28–|id=GGKEY:2CN6BC8K16L}}
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