McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth (1886-1948)

Also known as
David, Margaret Edgeworth (1886-1948)
Field of activity
Community worker and Politician; community worker; Member of Upper House
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-728063

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McINTYRE, WILLIAM KEVERALL (1881-1969), gynaecologist, and McINTYRE, MARGARET EDGEWORTH (1886-1948), community worker and politician, were husband and wife. Keverall was born on 13 January 1881 in Hobart, son of John McIntyre, barrister, and his wife Adeline Janetta, née Langdon. Educated at The Hutchins School, he served (1900-01) in the South African War as a member of the 2nd (Tasmanian Bushmen) Contingent. In 1904-07 he read engineering at the University of Sydney (B.Eng., 1921); he then worked as an assayer in Tasmania, at Mount Bischoff and Zeehan. At St John's Anglican Church, Ashfield, Sydney, on 28 September 1909 he married Margaret Edgeworth David; they were to have four children.

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Margaret McIntyre was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to education on 1 January 1948. She was the first woman Member of Parliament in Tasmania and was killed in an air crash three months after being elected to the Legislative Council seat of Cornwall as an independent.

The daughter of Tannatt William Edgeworth and Caroline Martha David, Margaret McIntyre was educated by her mother and a governess. She attended the University of Sydney and in 1907 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. She married William Keverall McIntyre in 1908 and moved to Tasmania. They had four children.

Margaret McIntyre became involved with community work - especially helping women develop a sense of self-worth. She was state commissioner of the Girl Guides (1940-1948), and vice-president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Anzac Hostel Women's League of Remembrance. McIntyre became the first northern president of the Women Graduates' Association, served on the board of the Queen Victoria Hospital, the Community Association Council and the ABC advisory committee.

Involved with the Launceston Progressive Education Group and the establishment of Brooks Community School, McIntyre established a youth drama group and was president and producer of the Launceston Players.

Awarded an OBE on 1 January 1948 for services to education, in that year McIntyre also became the first woman in Tasmanian Parliament when she was elected to represent the people of the electorate of Cornwall in the Legislative Council. Three months after being elected she died in an air-crash whilst returning from a National Council of Women Conference.

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  1. McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth (1886-1948)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth (1886-1948)
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150746b.htm
  2. Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, OBE (1886-1948)Significant Tasmanian Women Women Tasmania : Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, OBE (1886-1948)
    Published: Women Tasmania
    Series: http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/margmcintyre.html
  3. No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics
    Jenkins, Cathy
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Scholarly Publishing
  4. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  5. Papers of the David Family
    National Library of Australia
    Published: National Library of Australia
    Series: http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/8890.html
  6. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  7. National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room: [Biographical cuttings on Margaret McIntyre, politician]
  8. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of the David Family (1823 - 1992)
    The papers were purchased by the Library in 1995 from Ms Anne Edgeworth The papers relate to members of Anne Edgeworth's family, chiefly her grandfather Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, her grandmother Caroline David, her mother Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, and her aunt Mary Edgeworth David. The collection dates from the 1820s to the 1980s and is arranged by family member. All the series contain family correspondence. The Edgeworth David component includes honours, letters of sympathy and tributes after his death, photographs, articles by and about him, and reprints of some of his papers. Included in the many letters to his family is a typescript of a letter written at Granite Harbour on 1 November 1908, to be opened by his wife Caroline in the event of his death during the Antarctic expedition. There is also the typescript of a letter written on the same day to Lieutenant E. H . Shackleton, the commander of the Nimrod. A diary kept by Caroline David at Funafuti and later published in 1899 as 'the unscientific account of a scientific expedition' is in Series 2. There is extensive material on the Samurai sword given in gratitude to her husband by the leader of the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition in 1912, and later presented to the Australian Museum by the David family. Margaret McIntyre's papers include her writings and papers on community schools and centres. Mary (Molly) David's papers have a large component of letters to her niece Anne Edgeworth, and many business letters written by Anne on behalf of her aunt, negotiating the publication of 'Letters to Meg'. Handwritten drafts and illustrated typescripts of the unpublished 'Letters to Meg', as well as original typescripts with annotations of Passages of Time and Professor David, form an interesting part of the collection.
    MS 8890
  9. National Library of Australia: Papers, [manuscript]. 1823-1992 (1823 - 1992)
    The papers relate to members of Anne Edgeworth's family, chiefly her grandfather Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, her grandmother Caroline David, her mother Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, and her aunt Mary Edgeworth David. All the series contain family correspondence. Correspondents include Mary David, the Edgeworth Davids, the McIntyres, Anne Edgeworth, and all family members. The Edgeworth David component includes honours, letters of sympathy and tributes after his death, photographs, articles by and about him, and reprints of some of his papers. The Funafuti diary, "the unscientific account of a scientific expedition", and material on the Samurai sword are an important part of Caroline David's papers. Margaret McIntyre's papers include her writings and papers on community schools and centres. Mary David's papers have a large component of letters to her niece Anna Edgeworth. Handwritten drafts and illustrated typescripts of the unpublished "Letters to Meg" are an interesting part of the collection. Consists of correspondence between John Edward (Ned) Touche (formerly Touch) and the David Family during the years 1889 to 1943. There are also newspaper clippings about David, a reprint of one of his papers, handwritten copies of a "Sydney morning herald" article "Formation of coral reefs" and of a poem, and 3 sketches of coral reefs by David.
    MS 8890

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