Margaret Watson, a graduate of the London School of Economics, came to Hong Kong in July 1939 to become the Colony's first Medical Social Worker.
She was a friend of Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, and, like her, one of Hong Kong's small group of British leftists. When Mrs Selwyn-Clarke and her daughter were sent to Stanley camp in May 1943, Watson moved to Bungalow D to share a small room with them.
On April 4, 1949 she married Hong Kong University Vice Chancellor Duncan Sloss. The couple moved to Oxford on Sloss's retirement and she became an academic librarian. After her husband's death she became a lecturer in sociology and social policy, Deputy Director of the Oxford Samaritans and Chair of the Community Health Council.
Source:
Susanna Hoe, 1991, The Private Life of Old Hong Kong, 271, 301
Leftists:https://jonmarkgreville2.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/the-european-far-left…
Later life: https://jonmarkgreville2.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/duncan-sloss/
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Margaret Watson
She was born in Edmonton, Middlesex.
In 1911 she was living with her father and younger brother in Hornsey, Middlesex. Her father was a woollen manufacturer's agent and they had one servant.
On April 4, 1949 she married - 'quietly in Hongkong' - Duncan Sloss. By this time she had been awarded the MBE.
Sources - all on Ancestry. com
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index,
1911 England Census
England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards