[1] Margaret focused her career on the study of environmental and occupational determinants of childhood and adult airway disease, specifically the lung health of asbestos miners and millers.
[2] Born in London, England, Becklake grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and received an MB and BCh degree in 1944 from the University of the Witwatersrand.
In 1950, she became a Junior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand where she studied the effects of dust inhalation on workers in the gold mines.
[6] The Montreal Chest Institute Foundation started the Dr. Margaret Becklake Fellowship[7] to honour her memory.
The Fellowship pays a salary to trainees in respiratory research who come from a low- or middle-income country and/or Canadian indigenous community.