Person    | Female  Born 26/9/1913  Died 12/11/1999

Lady Margaret Macdonald Casson

Born as Margaret Macdonald Troup on 26 September 1913 in Pretoria, South Africa, she was the second of the three daughters of Dr James Macdonald Troup (1867-1945) and Alberta Beatrice Caroline Troup née Davies (1873-1953). Her father was a medical practitioner.

Our Picture Source and her Wikipedia page give some information about this lady including the fact that she taught interior design at the Royal College of Art for twenty-five years.

She came to England with her family aboard the 'Grantully Castle' of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Line, departing from Cape Town, South Africa and arriving in London on 10 August 1925. The ship's manifest shows that the family intended to reside with her paternal grandfather, Sir James Troup, at 13 Addison Road, Kensington. Electoral registers in 1935 & 1936 show her listed at 83 Gower Street, Holborn.

In the 4th quarter of 1938 she married Hugh Maxwell Casson in St Margaret's Church, Westminster, having met when they were both on the staff of the Royal College of Art. They were to have three daughters: Carola Casson whose birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1941 in the Cheltenham registration district, Gloucestershire; Nicola Margaret Casson whose birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1943 in the Cheltenham registration district; and Dinah Victoria Casson whose birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1946 in the Kensington registration district. 

Telephone directories show her husband listed in 1939 at 7A Holland Street, London, W8.

In the 1952 New Year Honours List her husband was made a Knight Bachelor and she became Lady Casson.

Her death, aged 86 years, on 12 November 1999 was recorded in the Westminster registration district, London and came less than three months after that of her husband. She was cremated on 23 November 1999 in the Kensington and Chelsea district.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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