Lady Margaret Heathcote (née Yorke; 21 March 1733 – 19 August 1769) was a British aristocrat and poet.
The daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke and husband of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet, she wrote several poems throughout her life, some of which were posthumously published.
[1] She was skilled in poetry during her youth, with one of them appearing in a personal anthology from Lady Mary Capell and another, "Epistle addressed to Lady Grey at Wrest Park" (1747), posthumously appearing in The Gentleman's Magazine, which also published an Italian-language translation she worked on in 1818, and Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry in the 1780s.
[1] Outside of poetry, she had some fine art experience, being a student of Louis Goupy and a drawing teacher of Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory.
[1] Heathcote, spending her last years in declining health and stressed from pressure to beget an heir for the family, died on 19 August 1769 from complications from childbirth.