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Margaret Weston was born in Oakridge, Gloucestershire, the daughter of a headmaster and educated at Stroud High School.
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Margaret Weston
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Margaret Weston spent much of her life at the Science Museum in London, rising to Director at the end of her career from 1973 to 1986, succeeding Sir David Follett. She was instrumental in establishing the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum) in Bradford during the early 1980s. In 1984 she was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
She chose the subject "The Science Museum and Change - Over the last Thirty Years".
She is the Patron of the Heritage Railways Association.
