Background
Margaret Macdonald Troup was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on 26 September 1913. Her father, James MacDonald Troup, was a doctor and later advisor to January Smuts.
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Margaret Casson
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She was educated at Wychwood School, Oxford, and then attended the Bartlett School of Architecture of University College, London, one of few women to do so at that time.
Career
The Arts and crafts architect and designer Frank William Troup was her great-uncle. In 1938 and 1939 she was in private practice in South Africa, but returned to England at the start of the Second World War. She remained there until 1974, and in 1980 was made a senior fellowship
Late in life, Margaret Casson experimented with what she called shadow drawings or "sciagrams", photographs made either with or without a camera.
Some were platinum–palladium prints. These she exhibited under the name Margaret Macdonald in London, in 1994 at the Akehurst Gallery, in 1998 at the City Gallery and in 2000 at the Fine Art Society.
In Bath, at the Royal Photographic Society. In Japan, at the MIN Gallery, Tokyo.
And the United States, at the Forbes Magazine Galleries and at the Bertha Udang Gallery in New New York
The service of thanksgiving already planned for him at Saint Paul"s Cathedral on 29 November 1999 became a memorial to them both.
