Margery (disambiguation)

Margery is a female given name derived from Margaret, which can also be spelled as Marjorie or Marjory. From the Old French, the Middle English forms of Margaret equally derive from the Greek for pearl. Margery, Marjorie and Marjory in the 14th century became a medieval softened translation of French and Church Latin versions of Margaret. After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. The name later became that of a small rural settlement and a hill in England.

Given name

Middle Ages and Renaissance (Tudor) period

Margery Baxter, early English church disempowerment activist (lollard), sentenced to Sunday floggings in 1429
Margery Brews (d.1495), romance (Valentine's Day) love letter writer
Margery Brunham, see Margery Kempe
Margery Byset or Margaret/Margery Bissett and variations, turn of 15th century protagonist of the noble Bissett family (Ireland)
Margery de Burgh, 13th century Norman-Irish noblewoman
Margery Golding, or Margaret, Countess of Oxford, verbally Lady de Vere, wife of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford
Margery of Hedsor, early 14th century redeemed wayward nun of Burnham Abbey
Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", executed in 1441 in England
Margery Kempe, pilgrim in the early 15th century dictated the first quasi-autobiography in the English language, outlining parts of her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and Asia, as well as her mystical conversations with God
Margery Wentworth, later Lady Margaret Seymour, courtier, grandmother to Edward VI of England

Post-tudor era

Margery Allingham, murder mystery and crime fiction novelist
Margery Beddow, American actress, dancer, director and choreographer
Margery Booth, Opera singer; British spy
Margery Bronster, Attorney General of Hawaii
Margery Corbett Ashby, British Liberal politician, feminist and internationalist
Margery Clinton, Scottish ceramics artist of reduction lustre glazes
Margery Crandon, American 20th century physical medium and illusionist
Margery Cuyler, American children’s book author
Margery Deane, American author
Margery Eagan, American columnist with the Boston Herald, talk radio host
Margery Edwards, Australian artist: spiritual abstract expressionist who worked with mixed media
Margery Fish, English gardener and gardening writer, specialising in informal cottage gardens
Margery Fisher, British literary critic and academic
Margery Fry, British prison reformer
Margery Gardner, actress; murder victim
Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood, DBE (née Spencer)
Margery Hinton, British Olympic swimming medalist
Margery Mason, English actress and director
Margery Maude, English actress
Margery Palmer McCulloch, Scottish literary scholar, author and critic
Dame Margery Perham, British historian of, and writer on, African affairs
Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger, real name of Jayge Carr, American science fiction and fantasy author
Margery Sharp, English writer of 42 novels, 4 plays and of short stories, including The Rescuers and sequel adapted by Disney
Margery Saunders, British film editor
Margery Ward, NDP politician in Ontario
Margery Williams (Bianco), children's author
Margery Wilson, American actress and silent movie director

Places

England

Margery, a hamlet in Banstead Downs, Surrey
Margery Hill, a high hill towards the northern boundary of the Peak District National Park, South Yorkshire

Other uses

Margery and Gladys, drama
Margery Austin (schooner), (1918–1919)
Margery Daw (disambiguation), character, nursery rhyme, books