Background
She was the daughter of Scottish politician Daniel Holmes.
She was the daughter of Scottish politician Daniel Holmes.
Margaret had spent some of her time in Paris and learned French, but only started school at the age of seven, when the family was back in Scotland. Margaret has started at Street Columba"s School, Kilmacolm in Renfrewshire, Scotland but moved to Saint Mary"s Lancaster Gate in London, before moving due to disagreements with the school"s high church headmistress. Over the 20th century, many British congregationalists became convinced of the merits of ecumenical cooperation.
However, significant minorities did not share this conviction.
In her youth, in the 1920s, she was a member of the League of the Church Militant which was the predecessor of the "Movement for the Ordination of Women" and was rebuked by Randall Thomas Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, for advocating the ordination of women.