Margaret Carnegie

Margaret Frances Carnegie AO (14 March 1910 – 5 August 2002) was an Australian writer, art patron and collector.

Margaret Frances Carnegie was born in Melbourne on 14 March 1910, daughter of Henry George Allen and Amelia Burberry.

[2] She married Douglas Howard Carnegie on 11 March 1931 at Scots' Church, Melbourne.

[6] She was promoted to Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to art, literature and to local history".

[8][9] The university holds the Margaret Carnegie Collection of Australiana within its archives.