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{{short description|British missionary}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret Stott Bhore
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| image = MargaretStottBhore1935.png
| alt = A middle-aged white woman, wearing a dark floppy hat and a print dress with a lace yoke detail
| caption = Margaret, Lady Bhore, from a 1935 newspaper
| other_names = Lady Bhore
| birth_name = Margaret Wilkie Stott
| birth_date = 20 June 1884
| birth_place = Dundee, Scotland, UK
| death_date = 30 December 1945
| death_place = Bhopal
| occupation = Physician, missionary, philanthropist
| spouse(s) = Sir [[Joseph William Bhore]]
| relatives =
}}

'''Margaret Wilkie Bhore''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ({{nee}} '''Stott'''; 20 June 1884 – 30 December 1945), also known as '''Lady Bhore''', was a Scottish physician, missionary, and philanthropist in India. She was the wife of Indian civil servant Sir [[Joseph William Bhore]].

== Early life and education ==
Margaret Wilkie Stott was born on 20 June 1884 in [[Dundee]], the daughter of Joseph Stott.<ref name=Obit1946>{{cite journal |title=OBITUARY: Lady Bhore |journal=British Medical Journal |date=19 January 1946 |volume=1 |issue=4437 |pages=110–111 |pmc=2057905 |issn=0007-1447}}</ref> Her father was a cabinet maker and upholsterer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CMOAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Joseph+Stott%22+Dundee&pg=RA2-PA38|title=The Dundee directory|date=1885|pages=38|language=en}}</ref> She attended the [[Morgan Academy]] and earned a medical degree at [[University of St Andrews School of Medicine|St. Andrews University]] in Dundee in 1907.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Kabadi Waman P.|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523178|title=Indian Who's Who 1937-38|date=1937|pages=94|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=19 January 1946|title=Obituary|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/4437/local/admin.pdf|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=1|pages=111}}</ref> Her training focused on [[materia medica]], pathology, forensic medicine, and public health.<ref>{{Cite book|last=University of St Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ctZXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Margaret+Wilkie+Stott&pg=PA174|title=The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year ...|date=1906|publisher=Printed and published for the Senatus Academicus by William Blackwood and Sons|pages=174|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Stott worked as an assistant physician in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] for a year,<ref name=":1" /> then went to India in 1908, to be medical officer at the Baptist Mission Hospital in [[Berhampore]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1935-09-19|title=Lady Bhore Friend to Women of India; Went There First as Missionary|pages=17|work=The Windsor Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89532622/lady-bhore-friend-to-women-of-india/|access-date=2021-11-25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She lived in [[Delhi]], where she served on civic committees and charity boards for health, especially maternal and child welfare,<ref>{{Cite book|last=National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India|url=https://archive.org/details/b31416652|title=Annual report of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India|date=1930|publisher=Calcutta : Govt. of India Central Publication Branch|others=Wellcome Library}}</ref> and on anti-[[Tuberculosis in India|tuberculosis]] efforts.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 November 1934|title=Anti-Tuberculosis Conference|page=8|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.8889/page/8/mode/2up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> She worked with the [[YWCA]] and the [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]]. She was on governing boards of the [[Lady Irwin College|Lady Irwin College for Girls]] and the [[Lady Hardinge Medical College]] in Delhi.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She accompanied her husband on tours and visits for his government work.<ref>{{Cite news|date=24 December 1932|title=Sir and Lady J. W. Bhore to Visit Cochin State|page=1|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.992/page/16/mode/2up?q=Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=30 December 1932|title=Sir Joseph and Lady Bhore; Warm Reception at Cochin|page=2|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.990/page/4/mode/2up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=27 August 1940|title=Sir Joseph Bhore in Bhopal|page=2|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.10006/page/2/mode/2up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> The couple represented India in the procession of carriages at the [[Silver Jubilee of George V|Imperial Silver Jubilee]] celebrations in London in 1935.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Home Amal|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206662|title=The Imperial Silver Jubilee Commemoration Volume|date=1935|pages=108|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1935-05-04|title=Order of the Processions: The Prime Ministers' Procession|pages=10|work=Evening Standard|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89532927/order-of-the-processions-the-prime/|access-date=2021-11-25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> During World War II, she was active in addressing the needs of soldiers' families in [[Bhopal]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=11 September 1940|title=For Relief of Bhopal Soldiers' Families|page=9|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.10019/page/8/mode/2up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Lady Bhore was awarded the [[Delhi Durbar Medal (1911)|Delhi Durbar Medal]] in 1911. She was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 1919, for her wartime work in [[Kochi|Cochin]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 January 1919|title=India|page=195|work=Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13383/page/195/data.pdf|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref> She received the gold [[Kaisar-i-Hind Medal]] in 1934,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 January 1934|title=Aga Khan and Sir T. B. Sapru Become Privy Councillors|page=1|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.2100/mode/1up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and was elevated to the OBE in 1944.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 January 1944|title=C. D. Deshmukh, N. J. Wadia, and A. P. Chief Knighted|page=1|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.10913/mode/2up?q=Lady+Bhore|access-date=November 25, 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Margaret Stott married Indian civil servant Joseph William Bhore in 1911. They had two children.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Slater|first=Gilbert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCRHDwAAQBAJ&dq=J.+W.+Bhore+children&pg=PT204|title=Revival: Southern India (1936): Its Political and Economic Problems|date=2018-01-16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-34409-8|language=en}}</ref> She died in 1945, in Bhopal.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=1946-11-04|title=£250, a house, and 'best wishes'|pages=4|work=Evening Standard|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89532813/250-a-house-and-best-wishes/|access-date=2021-11-25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> There is a Lady Bhore Urban Health and Training Centre in Bhopal, named in her memory. The actress [[Jiggy Bhore]] is her granddaughter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jiggy Bhore|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080423/|access-date=2021-11-25|website=IMDb}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121873/Sir-Joseph-William-Bhore-Margaret-Wilkie-ne-Stott-Lady-Bhore "Sir Joseph William Bhore; Margaret Wilkie (née Stott), Lady Bhore"] 1935 photograph by [[Alexander Bassano|Bassano Ltd]], in the collection of the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
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[[Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors]]
[[Category:British medical missionaries]]
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[[Category:Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire]]

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