Margaret Rooke Stevenson

Margaret Rooke Stevenson (1706–1783) was a British landlady and close friend of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin rented rooms from her during both of his stays in London: 1757–1762 and 1764–1775.

She was married to Addinell Stevenson, a merchant, and they had one child, Mary (better known as Polly), in 1739. Her husband died in about 1747.

Her most famous tenant was American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who rented a suite of four rooms in the house beginning in 1757.

Even though Stevenson found writing an "oddieus taske", she maintained an active correspondence with Franklin while he returned to America. After Franklin's wife died in 1774 Stevenson hoped that he might marry her, but this did not happen.

Stevenson died in 1783.