Marguerite Stocker

Marguerite Ellen-Gaudin Stocker MBE (2 March 1901 – July 1992) was governor of HM Prison Askham Grange in Yorkshire from 1959 until her retirement in 1967.

[6] Stocker wrote about her experiences at Galloway Engineering Co in the Tongland factory's works magazine The Limit, under the name "M.E.G.S.

[7] In 1922, having left Tongland, Stocker described her "two and a half years' course of engineering" in the Jersey Ladies' College "Past and Present Review".

[12] She was a guest at the 6th Annual Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London in October 1960, alongside Margaret Thatcher[13] Stocker was awarded the honour of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1965.

[14] In October 1976 Stocker was interviewed by Caroline Parsons on BBC Woman's Hour about her days as a prison governor.

Brick factory building.
Tongland Works of the Galloway Engineering Company.
Archive books on an archive table
Bound copies of "The Limit" and "The Spanner", works magazines from Galloway Engineering Co and Arrol-Johnston Co.