Margaret à Barrow

Margaret à Barrow (1500–1560/69) was an English lady, well known for her learning. She is sometimes referred to as Margaret Aborough (a variant of à Barrow) or as Lady Margaret Elyot.

Margaret was the daughter of Sir Thomas Aborough or à Barrow and she was one of a small group of children educated at the home of Thomas More.

Around 1520, Margaret Aborough married the author Thomas Elyot. Margaret and Thomas sat for portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the home of Thomas More. No oil paintings of these portraits survive. The drawings are held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Margaret Elyot outlived Sir Thomas by nearly 15 years, and married, as her second husband, Sir James Dyer, a scholarly lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons.