Margaret Potter (1) (1916–1997)

Born Margaret Whittington on 12 June 1916 in Heathrow, Middlesex, England, daughter of a farmer. Married Alexander Potter. Studied at Ealing School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic. Worked in a commercial art studio in London (1932-36) and as a travelling cookery demonstrator and cartoonist (1936-39). Women students' warden at the University of Khartoum, Sudan (1959-61). Animal portrait painter (miniatures). writer, lithographer and draughtsman in pen and pencil. Margaret and Alexander Potter have collaborated on writing and illustrating. She died on 24 October 1997.