Person:Margaret Andrews (6)

RESIDENCES: At birth - Ackworth School, Yorkshire, England. At time of death - Rome, Italy

EDUCATION: Ackworth School 1889-1892 Scarborough The Mount School The Slade, London The Paris Salon C.M.B at Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh, SCT

OCCUPATION: House-keeper to her father at Ackworth Teacher at Ackworth - artfor the boys Babies Welcome at Ackworth Superintendent of the Bermondsey Club for Women and Babies -1920 Superintendent of the Infant Welfare Centres, Hampstead

TRAVEL: Went to live with her sister in Canada in the early years of the Second World War.

OBITUARY: Margaret Andrews (scholar 1889-1892), was the eldest daughter ofFrederick and Anna Maria Andrews, of Ackworth. the former beingthen at the beginning of his 43 years Headmastership. Her publiclife began early for, at the age of four months, she planted atree at the foot of the girls' green as part of the AckworthCentenary Celebrations in 1879. Alter a short period of schoollife at Scarborough, she went to the Mount School, where at first she had the distinction of being both the youngest and the tallest girl. She early developed considerable artistic talent,and went to the Slade and later to the Paris Salon to follow art as her career. When the new Headmaster's House was built at Ackworth, shereturned to act as housekeeper for her father. She hadaccompanied him on his tour round the world, and had broughtback many sketches made during this unforgettable experience.She fitted into the life at the school with happy results foreveryone, for a period becoming drawing mistress on the boys'side. Her help was always sought for every sort ofenter-tainment and her histrionic ability, especially, was of ahigh order and continually being called for. She spent the earlyyears of the war in Canada with her sister Gertrude. But hergreat longing was to do something for mothers and babies. Shestarted her Babies' Welcome at Ackworth with the valued help ofDr. Qyston and at the same time was elected on the RuralDistrict Council. She had trained and taken her C.M.B. at theRoyal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh. For the last 15 years of her life she gave whole-hearteddevotion to infant welfare work in London. where she was firstof all Superintendent of the Ber-mondsey Club for Mothers andBabies, and later Superintendent of the Infant Welfare Centres,Hampstead. She was President of the Ackworth G.S.A. in 1925-6.Never sparing herself, she broke down in health, and underdoctor's orders went to winter in Rome. Here she died onFebruary 3, 1935, aged nearly 56.

1. ↑ Public Records Office. 1881 British Census Transcript. (Electronic transcript to CD by LDS)
   FHL Film 1342109 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4597 Folio 116 Page 1.
2. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.92.
3. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.221.
4. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.221.
5. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.221.
6. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.222.
7.   Public Records Office. 1881 British Census Transcript. (Electronic transcript to CD by LDS)
   FHL Film 1342109 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4597 Folio 116 Page 1.