Person: Boyle (2), Margaret E

Margaret Boyle graduated from St Andrews and taught mathematics at Dalkeith High School.

In the same year she won a Simson Bursary for £25 for four years in the University of St Andrews Bursary Competition.
At the University of St Andrews she became friendly with fellow mathematics student Agnes Mudie and both lived in University Hall.
The two friends graduated in 1925 with both being awarded MA (Class I).
The friendship remained for the rest of their lives.
She and Agnes Mudie both lived at Buchanan Hostel, East Suffolk Road, Edinburgh, and both joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in June 1926.
Margaret Boyle gave up teaching because of illness.
In January 1930 she wrote from Kirkden Manse, Letham, Angus to the hon.
They had two sons, the elder being David Campbell Dorward (born in a Dundee nursing home on 7 August 1933) who became a well-known classical composer, and younger being John Dorward.
Agnes and Margaret frequently attended the St Andrews University Hall Association for reunions with her fellow-residents.

Born 5 May 1905, Kirkden Manse, Angus, Scotland. Died 11 September 1995, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Origin Scotland, Women

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