Dame Mary Kathleen Cheshire, DBE (née Lloyd; 31 May 1902 – 3 April 1972) was a director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS).
[1] By 1946 she was acting superintendent, for which service she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 Birthday Honours.
The WRNS was not disbanded after the war, and in 1950 Lloyd succeeded Dame Jocelyn Woollcombe as its director (most senior officer, equivalent to a rear admiral).
[1] She spent a number of years working with her stepson's eponymous Cheshire Foundation.
Her requiem mass was held at Westminster Cathedral on 28 July 1972, and attended by Queen Elizabeth II.