Margaret Davis
Margaret Davis may refer to: * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist) (born 1931), American paleoecologist * Margaret Davis (politician) (1933–2022), Australian politician *Margaret Thomson Davis Margaret Thomson Davis (24 May 1926 – 14 June 2016) was a Scottish writer of novels about Glasgow life, beginning with her popular 1972 novel, '' The Breadmakers''. Biography Thomson Davis was born in Bathgate, West Lothian, and was three years ...

Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
Dr. Margaret Bryan Davis (''née'' Margaret Bryan; born October 23, 1931) is an American palynologist and paleoecologist, who used pollen data to study the vegetation history of the past 21,000 years (i.e. since the last ice age). She showed conclusively that temperate- and boreal-forest species migrated at different rates and in different directions while forming a changing mosaic of communities. Early in her career, she challenged the standard methods and prevailing interpretations of the data and fostered rigorous analysis in palynology. As a leading figure in ecology and paleoecology, she served as president of the Ecological Society of America and the American Quaternary Association and as chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. In 1982 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and, in 1993, received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America. Early life and education Davis was born on Oct ...
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Margaret Davis (politician)
Margaret Alayne Elizabeth Davis, ''née'' Alexander (23 September 1933 – 7 December 2022) was an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1967 to 1978. She was the daughter of J. K. Alexander, a doctor, and Joan Abbott at Gilgandra, where she received her primary education. She then attended Abbotsleigh in Sydney and then the University of Sydney, becoming a pharmacist. On 10 March 1955 she married Neil Davis, with whom she had three children. She joined the Liberal Party around 1959, and sat on Bankstown Council from 1962 to 1963. In 1964 she was president of the Auburn branch of the Liberal Party. In 1967, Davis was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Liberal member. She served until 15 September 1978, when she resigned just prior to the state election. Due to the reduction in the Council's size, Davis was not included on the Coalition A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or g ...
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