Margaret Giles

Margaret May Giles FRIBA (20 May 1868 – 31 March 1949) was a British painter, sculptor, and medallist.[1][2] She was a member of the Society of Medallists and exhibited at their first exhibition in 1898 which was held at the Dutch Gallery in London, where her piece "Two Medals" was favorably critiqued.

She was born in Clifton, Bristol, the daughter of Richard William Giles, a barrister, and Frances Elizabeth Giles, and christened 9 October 1868 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Her older sister was the painter Frances Giles. Margaret was educated at the National Art Training School.[3] She married engineer Bernard Maxwell Jenkin in 1898.[4] Their children were scientist Penelope Margaret Jenkin and Mary Elizabeth Jenkin.[5]

References
  1. "Margaret Giles's life and career". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  2. Tilden, Sir William A. (1917). Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century. London: George Routledge & Sons.
  3. "Margaret May Giles RWA, FRIBA". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932
  5. 1939 England and Wales Register


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