Margaret Troup Gray (4 February 1849 to 17 September 1921) was a teacher, translator, and missionary, from Aberdeen.
She attended the Sunday school at St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian church, run by Jane Melville.
[1] Having trained and worked as a teacher, Margaret Troup Gray became engaged to her childhood friend Robert Laws in 1875 and, after a long engagement while he became established as a medical missionary, they married in Africa in 1879.
[2][3][4] They had eight children, but only one survived—Amelia Nyasa Laws, born in 1886, was sent back to Scotland for her education at the age of eight.
[2] Margaret Troup Gray spent most of her 40 years at Livingstonia, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and returned to Scotland in failing health and died there.