Margaret Jane Gordon

Lady Margaret Jane Gordon (born Margaret Jane Thomas; 3 March 1880 – 23 September 1962) was a Welsh singer who had a career in Australia. She married her admirer and worked to support good causes.

Life Gordon was born in New Quay in Wales in 1880. Her parents were Anne and her husband Thomas Thomas.

In 1904 she began her singing career in London, where she was discovered by James Cassius Williamson, an American impresario who wanted her to tour in Australia in February and March of the following year. Williamson's new Parkina-Földesy Concert Company was managed by George Tallis. The American soprano Elizabeth Parkina was the star, and Gordon was the contralto with Whitworth Mitton as the tenor. She stayed in Australia and took the lead of Nanoya in The Cingalee for the Royal Comic Opera Company.

She organised a concert at Sydney Town Hall on 23 June 1915 in aid of the Red Cross. She sang Welsh songs and Antonia Dolores was the main performer. The concert raised over £1,000. Her husband died in 1942. After the war she returned to the UK.

Gordon died in 1962 in Savernake in Wiltshire.