Margery (disambiguation)

Margery is a female given name derived from Margaret, which can also be spelled as Marjorie or Marjory. From the Old French, the Middle English forms of Margaret equally derive from the Greek for pearl. Margery, Marjorie and Marjory in the 14th century became a medieval softened translation of French and Church Latin versions of Margaret. After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. The name later became that of a small rural settlement and a hill in England.

Given name

Middle Ages and Renaissance (Tudor) period

• Margery Arnold (fl. mid 14th century), landowner
• Margery Baxter, early English church disempowerment activist (lollard), sentenced to Sunday floggings in 1429
• Margery Brews (d.1495), love letter writer
• Margery Byset or Margaret/Margery Bissett and variations, turn of 15th century protagonist of the noble Bissett family of Ireland
• Margery de Burgh, 13th century Norman-Irish noblewoman
• Margery Golding, or Margaret, Countess of Oxford, verbally Lady de Vere, wife of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford
• Margery of Hedsor, early 14th century redeemed wayward nun of Burnham Abbey
• Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", executed in 1441 in England
• Margery Kempe, pilgrim in the early 15th century dictated the first quasi-autobiography in the English language, outlining parts of her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites, and her conversations with God
• Margery Wentworth, later Lady Margaret Seymour, courtier, grandmother to Edward VI of England

Post-Tudor era

• Margery Allingham, murder mystery and crime fiction novelist
• Margery Beddingfield (1742–1763), British criminal
• Margery Beddow, American actress, dancer, director and choreographer
• Margery Booth, Opera singer; British spy
• Margery Bronster, Attorney General of Hawaii
• Margery Corbett Ashby, British Liberal politician, feminist and internationalist
• Margery Clinton, Scottish ceramics artist of reduction lustre glazes
• Margery Crandon, American 20th century physical medium and illusionist
• Margery Cuyler, American children’s book author
• Margery Deane, American author
• Margery Eagan, American columnist with the Boston Herald, talk radio host
• Margery Edwards, Australian artist: spiritual abstract expressionist who worked with mixed media
• Margery Fish, English gardener and gardening writer, specialising in informal cottage gardens
• Margery Fisher, British literary critic and academic
• Margery Fry, British prison reformer
• Margery Gardner, actress; murder victim
• Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood, DBE (née Spencer)
• Margery Hinton, British Olympic swimming medalist
• Margery Mason, English actress and director
• Margery Maude, English actress
• Margery Palmer McCulloch, Scottish literary scholar, author and critic
• Dame Margery Perham, British historian of, and writer on, African affairs
• Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger, real name of Jayge Carr, American science fiction and fantasy author
• Margery Sharp, English writer of 42 novels, 4 plays and of short stories, including The Rescuers and sequel adapted by Disney
• Margery Saunders, British film editor
• Margery Ward, NDP politician in Ontario
• Margery Williams (Bianco), children's author
• Margery Wilson, American actress and silent movie director

Places

England

• Margery, a hamlet in Banstead Downs, Surrey
• Margery Hill, a high hill towards the northern boundary of the Peak District National Park, South Yorkshire

Other uses

• Margery and Gladys, drama
• Margery Austin (schooner), (1918–1919)
• Margery Daw (disambiguation), character, nursery rhyme, books

See also

• 4064 Marjorie (2126 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1960
• Marjorie
• Marjory