[1] Her parents were Martha Mary (born Dalrymple) and Thomas Eustace Smith.

[1] Her sister Virginia who had a talent for languages married a Scottish lawyer named Donald Crawford who become MP for North-East Lanarkshire on 27 July 1881.

In 1885 her sister, Virginia, told her husband, Donald, that she had an affair with Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet, Margaret's brother-in-law.

[1] Dilke's sister, Virginia's, messy divorce completed in 1885 and after a trip abroad she returned to England, where she stayed with Maye.

[1] The conference was not about suffrage as this was too contentious but involved 49 delegates who were women leaders from nine countries.