Margaret Hills

Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was the first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Council. Early life Margaret Robertson was born at 41 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, London on 1 March 1882. Her father, Henry Robert Robertson, was an artist of Scottish extraction and her mother, Agnes Lucy Turner, was a descendant of Robert Chamberlain, who founded the china works of Chamberlain & Son at Worcester (which later became Royal Worcester), and her mother's relatives included John Davidson (traveller), the African explorer, and George Fownes, both of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society. Her paternal grandfather had a private school in Slough. Her siblings were botanist Agnes Arber, classicist Donald Struan Robertson and portrait artist Janet Robertson. She is the great aunt of musician Thomas Dolby. Hills attended North London Collegiate School (founded by Frances Buss) and obtained an open scholarship in 1901 to attend Somerville College, Oxford and obtained first class honours in 1904 (at a time when women were not awarded degrees by the University). She was later awarded a Bachelor of Arts by Trinity College Dublin in 1906, in common with many other Oxbridge Women as neither University awarded women degrees