Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1843–1920)

Margaret Dunlop Smith was the identical twin sister of Agnes Smith Lewis. Margaret was educated in Edinburgh and London. In 1883, she married James Young Gibson, a Spanish translator. His death in 1886 left her a childless widow, and when Agnes also became a widow, the two sisters lived and worked together. They became the center of a lively intellectual and religious circle. In 1892, they travelled to the library of Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Egyptian Sinai, where they discovered and translated the Sinai Palimpsest manuscripts, some of the oldest surviving New Testament manuscripts. Margaret photographed and exhibited some of them at the International Congress of Orientalists. Using Agnes's diaries, Margaret wrote and published How the Codex was Found in 1898.