Thompson, Marion Beatrice (1877–1964)

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Thompson, Marion Beatrice (1877–1964)

New Zealand school teacher, principal, and memoirist. Name variations: Marion Beatrice Thomson. Born Nov 22, 1877, in Dunedin, New Zealand; died June 12, 1964, in Feilding, New Zealand; dau. of Andrew Thomson and Margaret (Hamilton) Thomson; Dunedin Training College, MA, 1899; m. Laurence Thompson (cleric), 1909 (died 1929); children: 1 daughter, 2 sons.

Taught at Waitaki Girls' High School, Oamaru, at Prince Albert College, Auckland, and at Southland Girls' High School; helped establish Solway College, where she served as principal (1916–42); published We Built a School (1956).

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 3).

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