What is Margaret Battye?
{{Infobox person |name = Margaret Battye |image = M Battye.jpg |alt = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|08|09|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Subiaco, Western Australia]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|11|16|1909|08|09|df=y}} |death_place = Subiaco, Western Australia |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = Lawyer |alma_mater = [[University of Western Australia]] |nationality = Australian }} '''Margaret Battye''' (9 August 1909 – 16 November 1949) was an [[Australia]]n lawyer. She became influential in politics, business, and the legal advancement of women.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0063b.htm | title = McClemans, Sheila Mary (1909 - 1988) | access-date = 2007-12-15 | author = Judith Ion | date = 27 February 2004 | work = Australian Women: Biographical entry | publisher = National Foundation for Australian Women | quote = all four graduates of the class of 1930 were female: Margaret Battye, Mary Kathleen Hartney, Mary Connor Kingston and Sheila. }}</ref> Battye was the first woman to represent a client and begin a legal practice in Western Australia.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.liberal.org.au/about/documents/FederalWomensCommitteeHistoryto2003.pdf | title = Federal Women's Committee History to 2003 | access-date = 2007-12-15 | author = Daphne Bogue | year = 2003 | work = About | publisher = The [[Liberal Party of Australia]] | quote = Past Presidents of SWC have been Miss Margaret Battye, 1946 (also the first Chairman of Federal Women’s Committee in 1945-46) |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071212121200/http://www.liberal.org.au/about/documents/FederalWomensCommitteeHistoryto2003.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-12-12}}</ref> Battye died of [[thyrotoxicosis]] in 1949. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * Davidson, Dianne, ''Women on the warpath : feminists of the first wave'', University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1997. {{DEFAULTSORT:Battye, M