Margaret Hubbard (16 June 1924 – 28 April 2011) was an Australian-born British classical scholar specialising in philology.
[4]: 224 The following year, she won the Ireland Scholarship, which has been described as "the most distinguished Classical award open to members of [Oxford] University.
[11] She spent her retirement travelling, cooking, reading, and doing jigsaws with her "adored companion" and partner Gwynneth Matthews, who had been a tutor in Ancient Philosophy at St Anne's,[8][12] and with whom she had lived since at least the 1960s.
[13]: 103 In 2007 she was elected to an honorary fellowship at St Anne's, and the following year a one-day conference was held to commemorate Hubbard's work.
Her major works include a "monumentally authoritative" commentary on Horace in two volumes (1970 and 1978),[5] produced with Robin Nisbet, described as "models of lucidity and of learning.