Marjorie Simpson

Marjorie Constance (White) Simpson (17 June 1924 – 27 January 2003) was an Australian architect, the first female Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in South Australia, awarded in 1993 for her extensive contribution to architecture.

Early life Born Marjorie Constance White in New South Wales on 17 June 1924, she was daughter to an architect Charles Arthur Mortimer White, and younger sister to architect, A.G.M. White (b.1914).

Career Marjorie White became a registered architect in New South Wales in 1949. The same year she married fellow architect Peter Simpson (1924–1992) changing her surname to Simpson. She began working as an architect for the Commonwealth Department of Works in Sydney in 1950.

In 1954 the Simpsons travelled overseas, touring Europe by car. They briefly settled in London where Marjorie worked for Sir Thomas Bennett & Son's office from 1955 to 1956. putting great effort into resurrecting the Small Homes Service which had been predicted to fail not long before she was elected as Director.

The Peter and Marjorie Simpson Collection is held at the Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.