Margaret Hilda Alington ONZM (née Broadhead, 30 September 1920 – 15 October 2012) was a New Zealand librarian, historian and author.
[1] Henry Broadhead was from Peebles, Scotland and came to New Zealand as a child with his family, settling in Christchurch, and rising to become an associate professor of classics at Canterbury University College.
[2] Hilda Broadhead's father, James Wyse Stewart (1860-1894), was from Aberdeen, Scotland, settling in New Zealand at Templeton, Christchurch.
The culmination of this investigation was Alington's book, An Excellent recruit: Frederick Thatcher, architect, priest and private secretary in early New Zealand, published in 2007.
Alington gave an annual lecture on the history of Old St Paul's at the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington from 1978 to 2005.