Margaret Davies

Margaret Davies (née Dunlop; 30 September 1914 was an English conservationist and archaeologist. She was the first chair of the Welsh Committee of the Countryside Commission, was also president of the Cardiff Naturalists Club and on the Council of the National Museum of Wales.

Early life and education Davies was born in Bury, Lancashire in 1914. She attended Bury Grammar School and subsequently Manchester University, where she read Archeology. She wrote her MA thesis on "The distribution of Bronze Age objects and implements in France, with special reference to British and more distant connections". She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1973.

Personal life She married Elwyn Davies, later chief inspector for the Welsh Education Office, in 1940. After World War II ended, she and her husband moved to Cardiff.

She died at Wittybush hospital on 6 October 1982.

Legacy The Times recorded in her obituary that, as an English woman, she had been accepted by the Welsh "in a way few non-natives are".

At her funeral it was stated that she "gave much in a quiet and unobtrusive way."