Margaret Stott Bhore

Margaret Wilkie Bhore OBE (née Stott; 20 June 1884 – 30 December 1945), also known as Lady Bhore, was a Scottish physician, missionary, and philanthropist in India. She was the wife of Indian civil servant Sir Joseph William Bhore.

Margaret Stott Bhore

OBE
A middle-aged white woman, wearing a dark floppy hat and a print dress with a lace yoke detail
Margaret, Lady Bhore, from a 1935 newspaper
Born
Margaret Wilkie Stott

20 June 1884
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Died30 December 1945
Bhopal
Other namesLady Bhore
Occupation(s)Physician, missionary, philanthropist
SpouseSir Joseph William Bhore

Early life and education

Margaret Wilkie Stott was born on 20 June 1884 in Dundee, the daughter of Joseph Stott.[1] Her father was a cabinet maker and upholsterer.[2] She attended the Morgan Academy and earned a medical degree at St. Andrews University in Dundee in 1907.[3][4] Her training focused on materia medica, pathology, forensic medicine, and public health.[5]

Career

Stott worked as an assistant physician in Preston for a year,[4] then went to India in 1908, to be medical officer at the Baptist Mission Hospital in Berhampore.[6] She lived in Delhi, where she served on civic committees and charity boards for health, especially maternal and child welfare,[7] and on anti-tuberculosis efforts.[8] She worked with the YWCA and the Red Cross. She was on governing boards of the Lady Irwin College for Girls and the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi.[3][4] She accompanied her husband on tours and visits for his government work.[9][10][11] The couple represented India in the procession of carriages at the Imperial Silver Jubilee celebrations in London in 1935.[12][13] During World War II, she was active in addressing the needs of soldiers' families in Bhopal.[14]

Lady Bhore was awarded the Delhi Durbar Medal in 1911. She was awarded the MBE in 1919, for her wartime work in Cochin.[15] She received the gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1934,[16] and was elevated to the OBE in 1944.[17]

Personal life

Margaret Stott married Indian civil servant Joseph William Bhore in 1911. They had two children.[18] She died in 1945, in Bhopal.[4][19] There is a Lady Bhore Urban Health and Training Centre in Bhopal, named in her memory. The actress Jiggy Bhore is her granddaughter.[20]

References
  1. "OBITUARY: Lady Bhore". British Medical Journal. 1 (4437): 110–111. 19 January 1946. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2057905.
  2. The Dundee directory. 1885. p. 38.
  3. Kabadi Waman P. (1937). Indian Whos Who 1937-38. p. 94 – via Internet Archive.
  4. "Obituary" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 1: 111. 19 January 1946.
  5. University of St Andrews (1906). The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year ... Printed and published for the Senatus Academicus by William Blackwood and Sons. p. 174.
  6. "Lady Bhore Friend to Women of India; Went There First as Missionary". The Windsor Star. 19 September 1935. p. 17. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India (1930). Annual report of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India. Wellcome Library. Calcutta : Govt. of India Central Publication Branch.
  8. "Anti-Tuberculosis Conference". The Bombay Chronicle. 1 November 1934. p. 8. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  9. "Sir and Lady J. W. Bhore to Visit Cochin State". The Bombay Chronicle. 24 December 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  10. "Sir Joseph and Lady Bhore; Warm Reception at Cochin". The Bombay Chronicle. 30 December 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  11. "Sir Joseph Bhore in Bhopal". The Bombay Chronicle. 27 August 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  12. Home Amal (1935). The Imperial Silver Jubilee Commemoration Volume. p. 108 – via Internet Archive.
  13. "Order of the Processions: The Prime Ministers' Procession". Evening Standard. 4 May 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "For Relief of Bhopal Soldiers' Families". The Bombay Chronicle. 11 September 1940. p. 9. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  15. "India" (PDF). Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette. 9 January 1919. p. 195. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  16. "Aga Khan and Sir T. B. Sapru Become Privy Councillors". The Bombay Chronicle. 1 January 1934. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  17. "C. D. Deshmukh, N. J. Wadia, and A. P. Chief Knighted". The Bombay Chronicle. 1 January 1944. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  18. Slater, Gilbert (16 January 2018). Revival: Southern India (1936): Its Political and Economic Problems. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-34409-8.
  19. "£250, a house, and 'best wishes'". Evening Standard. 4 November 1946. p. 4. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Jiggy Bhore". IMDb. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
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