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{{short description|British biochemist and scientific indexer}}
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'''Margaret Dampier Anderson''' (née '''Whetham'''; 1900–1997) was a British biochemist and scientific [[Index (publishing)|indexer]]. She published four scientific articles in the 1920s before marrying in 1927 and began indexing books beginning in 1960.
==Life==
Margaret Whetham was born on 21 April 1900, the daughter of [[William Cecil Dampier Whetham]], a [[Cambridge-educated]] scientist and agricultural academic, and his wife Catherine Durning Holt, a daughter of Liverpool merchant [[Robert Durning Holt]] who had also pursued an education at Cambridge. One of her many great aunts (the “Potter sisters”) was social reformer [[Beatrice Webb]]. She had one brother and four sisters, including [[Edith Holt Whetham]]. Her family owned a small [[manor house]] in [[Devon]], and also inherited a small estate in [[Hilfield, Dorset]] where they spent family vacations.
Margaret Whetham attended [[University College, Exeter]] and then earned her [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] from [[Newnham College, Cambridge]] in 1926. While in graduate school, she worked with [[Marjory Stephenson]] including work on the washed suspension technique, which had originated with [[Louis Pasteur]], for extracting [[enzyme]]s from bacteria. Whetham co-authored four scientific papers with Stephenson and held the Old Students Jubilee Research Fellowship in 1926–27. She married Dr. Alan Bruce Anderson, a clinical [[pathologist]], on 12 September 1927,<ref name=h7>Haines, p. 7</ref> and had five children and sixteen grandchildren including [[Tiffany Margaret Hall]].
==Work==
She abstracted scientific articles for several years before beginning to work as a freelance scientific indexer in 1960, creating indexes for 567 books over her career. Anderson joined the [[Society of Indexers]] two years later and served as its treasurer, membership secretary, member of the board of assessors, and vice-president over the next several decades. She was awarded the Wheatley Medal by the Society in 1975 for her index to ''Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook''.<ref name=h7/> Eight years later, the Society presented her with its Carey Award for "outstanding services to indexing".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Carey Award|url=https://www.indexers.org.uk/about-us/awards/the-carey-award/|website=Society of Indexers|access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref>
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==References==
{{cite book|last=Haines|first=Catherine M. C.|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain}}
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