Margaret Jackson (secretary)

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Margaret Wallace Jackson MBE (15 January 1917 – 2 June 2013) was principal secretary to the Director General of the

By 1940 she was working for the Royal Institution of International Affairs, from here she moved to the military until SOE was formed in November 1940, where she worked for Colin Gubbins until it was disbanded in 1946.

Jackson then joined the

After her return to England she was Conservative councillor for the London Borough of Southwark for eight years.

Family and personal life

Jackson, who was unmarried, was born to Scottish parents, and brought up in Argentina, until 1934.

References

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