Margaret Byers (née, Morrow; April 1832 – 21 February 1912) was an Irish educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, and writer of the long nineteenth century.

She wrote many papers on different phases of the progress of girls' education in Ireland, on Irish industrial schools, and on temperance.

[1] They stopped for a short time in the United States before continuing to China as missionaries under the auspices of the American Presbyterian Church.

[4] In 1853, widowed, she returned New York, connecting with American religious women,[5] and to Ireland in the following year at the behest of her mother,[5][4] making her home in Belfast.

Out of this developed the Belfast Prison Gate Mission for Women and the Victoria Homes for the Reclamation and Training of Neglected and Destitute Girls.

She was the author of many papers on different phases of the progress of girls' education in Ireland and on Irish industrial schools and temperance.