Had Margaret been born male she probably wouldn’t have been buried in Teignmouth Old Cemetery. She would probably have been interred in the churchyard of the Dartington estate, Totnes. She would probably have had a memorial plaque in the church tower. Parliamentary history would have changed and who knows what else might have changed by now.
But that didn’t happen and Margaret Champernowne was buried in a small tomb-like grave in one of the earliest consecrated sections of Teignmouth Cemetery (plot A30).
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Teignmouth Old Cemetery 