McGill Library
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Montreal, Quebec
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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Gascoigne, Margaret, approximately 1877-1934
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Description area
Dates of existence
approximately 1877-1934
History
Margaret Gascoigne was born about 1877, in Nottinghamshire, England.
She was educated in England where she attended Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford. In 1913, she moved to Montreal, Quebec. She was an educator and in 1915, she founded a small school for six students in the study of her home - the modest but aspiring beginning of what would become known as The Study, a Canadian private education all-girls school. She became its first headmistress. The school's innovative mindset comes from her passionate belief in the education of young women and instilling in them curiosity, love of learning, and determination. She herself was described as a woman of “cultivated mind and exquisite taste, sane in her viewpoints, with a lively sense of humour”.
The school established the Margaret Gascoigne Scholarship, awarded to a top new incoming Grade 7 student who could not otherwise afford to attend The Study.
She died on November 16, 1934, in Quebec, Canada.