Margaret Batty

Margaret Batty graduated with an honours degree from the University of Leeds in 1949 and a PhD from the University of London in 1988. With her husband Harry (a Methodist minister) she lived and worked in British Guiana and subsequently in the Thirsk and Reeth Methodist Circuits in Yorkshire, where she taught French and Latin in various secondary schools. She was Editor of Scottish Methodism, the journal of the Scottish Branch of the Wesley Historical Society, from 1996 to 2000. Now retired, she lives in Edinburgh.