Lady Margaret Heathcote

Lady Margaret Heathcote (née Yorke; 21 March 1733 – 19 August 1769) was a British aristocrat and poet. The daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke and husband of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet, she wrote several poems throughout her life, some of which were posthumously published. Biography Lady Margaret Yorke was born on 21 March 1733 (Hubberstey says that Heathcote may have been born in the Arch Row area of Lincoln's Inn Fields, where her parents lived.) Outside of poetry, she had some fine art experience, being a student of Louis Goupy and a drawing teacher of Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory.

Heathcote, spending her last years in declining health and stressed from pressure to beget an heir for the family, died on 19 August 1769 from complications from childbirth. Originally buried at St Matthew's Church, Normanton, she was later re-interred at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Edith Weston in 1970 as part of construction of Rutland Water.