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Lady Bawden writes:
The sudden death of Margaret Gwyneth Jones at the age of 66 has saddened her many friends and deprived Rothamsted Experimental Station of a dedicated entomologist and Harpenden of a worker for good causes.
Margaret Barnes entered Newnham College, Cambridge, as a Major Scholar in 1932 and graduated in Zoology. After teaching biology at Newtown, Montgomery, and Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, she returned to Cambridge to marry Dr F.G.W. Jones of the School of Agriculture.
She worked as librarian in the Zoology Department and brought up a daughter and three sons. In the early 1950s her husband was appointed to Rothamsted. The family moved to Harpenden and Margaret returned to teaching. In 1964 she worked at Rothamsted, resuming her research on insect pests of cereals. As the result of publishing many papers she was awarded the degree of PhD from Cambridge. Jointly with her husband she published a textbook on Pests of Field Crops.
Margaret also served as president of the Harpenden branch of the National Council of Women and chairman of their national committee on scientific development. She worked for the United Reformed Church, the United Nations' Assocation, the local Liberal Association, the Harpenden Society, and the Family Planning Clinic.
She will be greatly missed by her many friends and associates for her consideration of people and kindness to them, and admired for her ability to combine successfully domestic and academic life.
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