Margaret at age 13
This is a series of articles titled “First Names First” and it is all for pure entertainment!
Below you can see the list of first names. Your task is to pick one (with a link). Then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and then see what if anything she could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, enlightenment, encouragement, empathy, etc. Or just thoughts for the day.
Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived may all have something worthwhile to tell us – let them!
This time it is all about Margaret!
Margaret of Brabant* Countess of Flanders (1323)
Margaret I of Denmark* Queen of Haakon VI of Norway – Søborg Castle, Denmark (1353)
Margaret of Anjou* Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI – Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, France (1430)
Margaret of Bourbon* French noble – France (1438)
Margaret Tudor* Queen of Scots – Westminster Palace, London, England (1489)
Margaret Leijonhufvud* Queen of Sweden by marriage to Gustav Vasa – Ekeberg Castle, Närke, Sweden (1516)
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell* painter – Dunster Castle, Dunster, England (1726)
Margaret Corbin* fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War/given a pension by Congress - Franklin County, Pennsylvania (1751)
Margaret King* hostess/traveller/medical adviser – Ireland (1773)
Margaret Agnes Bunn* actress – Lanark, Scotland (1799)
Margaret Fuller* journalist/ critic – Cambridgeport, MA USA (1810)
Margaret E. Knight* inventor of flat-bottomed paper bag – York, Maine USA (1838)
Margaret Crosfield* paleontologist/ geologist – England (1859)
Margaret Murray* Anglo-Indian egyptologist/ anthropologist/historian – Calcutta, British India (1863)
Margaret Sanger* (b Higgins) nurse/birth control activist/sex educator - Corning, NY USA (1879)
Margaret Jeffrey* (b Hines) high rank police officer in the New South Wales Police - Bundanoon, NSW Australia (1896)
Margaret Mitchell* author – Atlanta, GA USA (1900)
Margaret Mead*anthropologist/ author/speaker – Philadelphia, PA USA (1901)
Margret “Maggie” Kuhn* social activist/founder of the Grey Panthers movement - Buffalo, NY USA (1905)
Margaret Burbidge* British-American observational astronomer/ astrophysicist – Davenport, England (1919)
Margaret Storkan* dermatologist – USA (1919)
Margaret Scott* ballet dancer/teacher/choreographer active in Australia – Johannesburg, South Africa (1922)
Margaret Truman* singer/author – Independence, MO USA (1924)
Margaret Fulton* Australian food writer/ journalist/ commentator – Nairn, Scotland (1924)
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff* physical chemist – Philadelphia, PA USA (1925)
Margaret Thatcher* politician – Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (1925) pic
Princess Margaret* – Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland (1930)
Margaret Atwood* author (The Handmaid’s Tale)/ inventor/ environmental activist – Ottawa, ON Canada (1939)
Margaret Travolta* actress/sister of John Travolta - Englewood, NJ USA (1946)
Updated 24.8.2020