Margaret postgate cole biography of albert einstein

British political activist and writer. Name variations: Dame Margaret Cole. Born Margaret Isabel Postgate in 1893; died in 1980; daughter of (John) Percival Postgate (1853–1926, a classical scholar); granddaughter of John Postgate (1820–1881, a reformer); educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge (degree in classics, 1914); married G.D.H.

Cole (a socialist and scholar), in 1918 (died 1949); children: two daughters and one son.

Born into a liberal family, Dame Margaret Cole would influence many significant Labour politicians as a leading socialist.

Her grandfather was John Postgate, a famous reformer, and her father was a Cambridge Classics don. After her graduation from Girton College, Cambridge, where she earned a degree in classics in 1914, Cole taught at St Paul's Girls' School in London for two years.

Her belief in socialism was strengthened when her brother Raymond was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War I. Co