Margaret Mary Tempest (1892–1982) was a British illustrator and author, best known for her illustrations of Alison Uttley's Little Grey Rabbit books.
[1] Margaret Tempest was born at 2 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1892.
[3] She was co-founder of the Chelsea Illustrators Club through which former students exhibited and sold their art.
She also wrote and illustrated her own books of the "dressed animal" type, notably the Curly Cobbler series.
[5] She married Sir Edward Grimwood Mears, in 1951.