Margaret Casson's first job, from 1937 to 1938, was in the office of the
Modernist architect
Kit Nicholson, son of the painter Sir
William Nicholson and brother of
Ben and
Nancy Nicholson, where Nicholson's wife
EQ and his student and protégé Hugh Casson also worked. In 1938 and 1939 she was in private practice in South Africa, but returned to England at the start of the
Second World War. From 1946 to 1951 she worked as a designer for Cockade Ltd., and in 1952 took up a post as senior tutor at the
Royal College of Art, where her husband Hugh was a professor. She remained there until 1974, and in 1980 was made a senior fellow. In 1985 she was made an
honorary fellow of the
Royal Academy, where her husband was president. She held advisory posts at several public organisations, among them the
Design Council from 1967 to 1973,
London Transport from 1980 to 1988, and the
Post Office from 1980 to 1985. Late in life, Margaret Casson experimented with what she called shadow drawings or "sciagrams", photographs made either with or without a camera; some were
platinum–palladium prints. These she exhibited under the name Margaret Macdonald in London, in 1994 at the Akehurst Gallery, in 1998 at the City Gallery and in 2000 at the
Fine Art Society; in
Bath, at the
Royal Photographic Society; in Japan, at the MIN Gallery, Tokyo; and the United States, at the Forbes Magazine Galleries and at the
Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York. Margaret Casson died in London on 12 November 1999, less than three months after the death of her husband. The service of thanksgiving already planned for him at
St. Paul's Cathedral on 29 November 1999 became a memorial to them both. == Notes ==