Margaret Christine Morton, born in Glasgow in 1903, was the daughter of Margaret and James, an ironmaster. She was brought up in the West End family home at Hughenden Terrace. She took her first degree, an M.A. at the University of St Andrews before matriculating in the Law Faculty in 1925. Her undergraduate recorded included several appearances on the list of prize-winners; a first class certificate in Constitutional Law and History in her first session, 1925-26 ; an award of Honours in Scots Law and a first class certificate in Jurisprudence the following year; a first class certificate in Forensic Medicine and 3rd place in Evidence and Procedure, and a first class certificate in Private International Law in her final year. She graduated B.L. in 1929. She may have intended to complete her professional training and go into practice but a few months after graduation, on 2nd February 1930 she married Patrick Sandeman Wilson Peat at Glasgow Cathedral. He was a yarn agent, a member of the Sandeman-Peat family, one of the largest manufacturers and merchants of yarn in the country. Margaret died prematurely, of breast cancer, on 10th May 1954, aged 51.
Sources
GU Archives Registry and General Council
Scotland’s People
