Margaret à Barrow

Margaret à Barrow (1500 – 26 August 1560) was an English lady, well known for her learning. She is sometimes referred to as Margaret Aborough (a variant of à Barrow) or as Margaret, Lady Elyot.

Margaret was the daughter of Sir Thomas à Barrow (or Aborough) and she was one of a small group of children educated at the home of Thomas More. Margaret and Elyot sat for portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the home of Thomas More.

Although it is unknown how it came into her possession, she owned the Yale Law School Manuscript of the Nova Statuta Angliae, and despite its value, she did not sell it. Instead she gave it as a gift to George Freville, a Cambridgeshire lawyer after her husband's death.