Margaret Bryan (philosopher) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Margaret Bryan
Engraving of Bryan and two girls
Born	Before 1760
Nationality	English
Occupation	Natural philosopher and educator
Years active	1797–1815

Margaret Bryan (fl. 1815) was an English natural philosopher and educator, and the author of standard scientific textbooks. She was schoolmistress of a school located at various times in Blackheath, at Cadogan Place, and in Margate at Bryan House above the yet to be discovered Margate Caves. Her first known work was Compendious System of Astronomy (1797), collecting her lectures on astronomy. She later published Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806), a textbook on the fundamentals of physics and astronomy, and an Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for Schools, a thin octavo, in 1815.

Life

The year of her birth is uncertain, probably before 1760. She married a Mr Bryan and had at least two daughters, as shown in a portrait of her.

Teaching

Bryan was a schoolmistress. Her school appears to have been situated at one time at Blackheath, at that time a village south-east of London; at another at 27 Lower Cadogan Place, near Hyde Park Corner, in the fashionable West End of the capital; and also at Margate, in Bryan House above the yet to be discovered Margate Caves. The school was for young women.