Alice Margaret Coats (15 June 1905 – 19 May 1978, in Bath)[1] was a British watercolour painter, engraver, woodcut artist, and author.
[3] Alice Margaret Coats was born on 15 June 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham, to a Scottish clergyman, the Rev.
Robert Hay Coats, and his wife Margaret, who was from Glasgow.
[5] Between 1933 and 1939 she was an organising secretary of the 'Birmingham Group' of artists and during World War II from 1940 to 1945 served in the Land Army helping to cultivate land on which Birmingham University housing was later built.
[4] In the 1950s, her artistic career was cut short by arthritis and since then she concentrated on her writings and the study of horticultural history.