Margaret Partridge Lighting the Way

Episode 5: Margaret Partridge

Author Henrietta Heald reads: Margaret Partridge loved everything about engineering and devoted her entire professional life to its practice – and to encouraging and training young women engineers. In 1919 she founded her own electrical consulting business in Devon, whose purpose was to provide lighting and electrical power for local communities. ‘For sheer exciting experience,’ she wrote, ‘give me a town to light!’ 

Margaret was a moving force behind the creation in 1924 of the Electrical Association for Women, chief author of the popularElectrical Handbook for Women and a regular contributor to the EAW’s journal,Electrical Age.

 Among the many female apprentices employed at the Devon firm of M. Partridge & Co. was Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling, who would make her mark as an aeronautical engineer in the Second World War with an invention reckoned to have saved the lives of many airmen.

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