Margaret Helen Read, CBE (5 August 1889 – 19 May 1991)[1] was a British social anthropologist and academic, who specialised in colonial education.
She was one of the first researchers to apply social anthropology and ethnography principles to the education and health problems of people living in the British colonies.
[2] In 1934, Read was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at LSE for a thesis titled "Primitive economics with special reference to culture contact".
[2] From 1940 to 1945, she served as temporary head of the Colonial Department of the Institute of Education, University of London, having been selected by Sir Fred Clarke.
After retiring in 1955, she became a consultant, notably for the World Health Organisation (WHO), and she also became a visiting professor in Nigeria and the United States.