The Quaker artist Margaret (or Maggie) Glover [earlier Margaret McKechnie] was born in 1935, and studied Fine Art at Reading University, later becoming a teacher at the Workers Educational Association (WEA). A member of the Lancaster Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), she offered to paint Fenner Brockway to raise funds for CND and went on to portray Philip Noel-Baker too; the two peers had recently founded the World Disarmament Campaign (WDC).

Maggie moved to Marlow [Buckinghamshire] in 1981, where her peace work continued. She travelled widely abroad during this period, initially as aide to Fenner Brockway, then in her own right. She also became Brockway’s part-time parliamentary researcher, and helped with his autobiography. Wherever she travelled she tried to sketch as well as take notes, and in this way she portrayed many remarkable people and events in the peace movement. Fenner Brockway said that she had done more than anyone to further the WDC’s international objectives. She died in 2015. (Information from ‘Epistles and Testimonies’ published by The Religious Society of Friends in Britain).