Margrét Þorbjörg Thors Hallgrímsson (April 22, 1902 – September 2, 1996) was a matriarch of one of the most powerful families in Iceland in the twentieth century. She was the eighth child of Margrét Þorbjörg Kristjánsdóttir and

Thor Philip Axel Jensen Thor Philip Axel Jensen (3 December 1863 – 12 September 1947) was a Danish entrepreneur who moved to Iceland at an early age and became famous there for his business activities during the first half of the twentieth century: he all but introd ...

, one of Iceland's most powerful businessmen, and the last of them to die. On November 17, 1928, Margrét Þorbjörg married the businessman

Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson (October 17, 1905 – September 16, 1984) was an Icelandic businessman and political figure in the mid-twentieth century. Early and family life Hallgrímur's parents were Friðrik Hallgrímsson, a priest at Grund and l ...

(1905–1989), with whom she had

Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson (28 January 1930 – 27 August 2020), also referred as Thora Hallgrimsdottir, was an Icelandic socialite and aristocrat who was the wife of the businessman Björgólfur Guðmundsson and like him was a prominent figure ...

and Elína Benta.'Margrét Þorbjörg Thors', ''Morgunblaðið'', September 10, 1996, p. 38 http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/286017/, http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=1861595.

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