14 Facts About Margaret Aston

Margaret Aston spent her early years living at Goodman's Furze near Epsom, Surrey.

Margaret Aston was educated at Downe House School, an all-girls private boarding school in Berkshire.

Margaret Aston was awarded a scholarship to study history at the University of Oxford and matriculated into Lady Margaret Hall in 1951.

Margaret Aston graduated Bachelor of Arts, later promoted to Master of Arts as per tradition.

Margaret Aston's supervisor was K B McFarlane, described by The Independent as "the pre-eminent authority on 15th century England, but notorious as a woman-hater".

Margaret Aston completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1962.

In 1956, Margaret Aston became a lecturer at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Margaret Aston's body was found in the moat of Ongar Castle, Essex.

Margaret Aston was a historian and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Margaret Aston met her second husband, Paul Buxton, while undertaking research in the United States in the late 1960s.

Margaret Aston was a diplomat and later a civil servant.

Margaret Aston became step-mother to his three children from a previous marriage, and together they had two children.

Margaret Aston was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Margaret Aston was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.