Margaret Heitland

Margaret Heitland (née Bateson; 27 February 1860 – 31 May 1938) was a British journalist and social activist (suffragette).

She was the daughter of William Henry Bateson, master of St John's College, Cambridge. In 1901 she married William Emerton Heitland, Classicist and Fellow of St John's.

She was sister of the geneticist William Bateson, his son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, and sister of Mary Bateson (historian).

She is buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge with her husband.

References

• Peter Searby, ‘Heitland , Margaret (1860–1938)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 March 2013