| Margaret Greenall | |
| Known For: | Founding Ribchester Roman Museum |
Margaret Greenall was an English businesswoman. She founded Ribchester Roman Museum in 1915.[1] [2] [3]
Greenall was a member of the Greenall's brewery family.
Greenall's father, Joseph Robinson, died in 1905, aged 75. He bequeathed Margaret "an immediate legacy of £500 and his household effects and consumable stores". She was also left the income from a £20,000 trust fund.[4]
In 1915, she established Ribchester Roman Museum after becoming concerned that many historic artefacts were being taken oit of the village, into the hands of private collectors.[5] She had earlier purchased a row of houses on Church Street in Ribchester, near the River Ribble, and had the land excavated prior to building a new property, today's Churchgates.[6] In 1928, an R. Greenall, the honorary secretary of the Ribchester Museum Trust, was living there.[7] Margaret had previously held the role.[8]
After her death, Greenall had dedicated to her The Roman Fort at Ribchester, a 1928 book by John Henry Hopkinson and Donald Atkinson. The dedication read:
MEMORIAE
MARGARETAE GREENALL
RERVM BREMETENNACENSIVM
FAVTRICI STVDIOSISSIMAE
HOC OPVSCVLM
GRATO ANIMO
DEDICATVR