Margaret Dalrymple Stoker

Margaret Dalrymple Stoker’s life connected the family’s homes abroad with the medical and charitable circles of Dublin. Family accounts describe her travelling with her parents and her elder sister Matilda in 1872, remaining with Charlotte in Italy after Abraham’s death, and later staying with Thornley and Emily in Dublin. These recollections preserve a family journey whose details deserve to be read alongside the surviving records. Family account.

On 27 June 1878 Margaret married the surgeon William Thomson. His knighthood in 1897 made her Lady Thomson. He was a colleague of Thornley at the Richmond Hospital and later organised the Irish Hospital for service in South Africa. The Stokers’ connections with that hospital were unusually close: Margaret’s younger brother George served there too. Historical biographical transcription.

The family remembers Margaret organising gifts and supplies for the hospital while the men were abroad. That work places her within the practical support network behind the medical mission, rather than only beside her husband’s list of honours. Family account.

A small newspaper report brings her Dublin life into sharper focus. A later institutional history records that in March 1907 she was struck by a motor car outside the Thomsons’ home on St Stephen’s Green. Staff from nearby St Vincent’s Hospital came to help; William and Thornley followed. The report describes serious bruising but says she was not dangerously injured. It is a glimpse of a changing city as well as a moment in the family’s history. Later institutional history quoting a contemporary report.

The Story of the Mageough, quoting the 1907 Lancet report – The Story of the Mageough (2021), passage quoting The Lancet, March 1907.

Family account and retained photographs, Estate Margaret page – Estate family recollections and retained photographs.

William Thomson, Dictionary of National Biography (1912) – 1912 supplement; William Thomson (1843–1909). Honours and Irish Hospital service.