Editing Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (section)

===Members of the college===
In 1919, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] started to give private tuition to students at Oxford, including members of LMH, where his tuition was much needed given the college's limited resources and tutors in its early years. Later his daughter, [[Priscilla Reuel Tolkien]], attended the college, graduating in 1951.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=by0dzzQ6m8sC&pg=PA669|title=J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment|last=Drout|first=Michael D. C.|date=2006-11-06|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1135880344|language=en}}</ref>

In 1948, [[Harper Lee]], the future author of ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', was a visiting student at LMH.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee|last=Cep|first=Casey|publisher=Knopf|isbn=9781101947869|language=en|year=2019}}, p. 163.</ref>

In 2017, [[Malala Yousafzai]], the youngest-ever [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel Prize Peace laureate]] and Pakistani campaigner for girls' education, became a student of the college;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oxfordstudent.com/2017/08/17/malala/|title=Malala Yousafzai accepted to read PPE at LMH|last=News Team|date=2017-08-17|website=The Oxford Student|access-date=2017-08-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826153821/http://oxfordstudent.com/2017/08/17/malala/|archive-date=2017-08-26}}</ref> she described the interview as "the hardest interview of [her] life", and received an offer of AAA in her [[A-Level]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/malala-yousafzai-oxford-university-lady-margaret-hall-pakistan-nobe-peace-prize-winner-a7625961.html|title=Malala Yousafzai hopes to study at Oxford University if she achieves AAA offer|last=McIntyre|first=Niamh|work=[[The Independent]]|date=12 March 2017|access-date=24 October 2017}}</ref> She graduated in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Malala Yousafzai completes Oxford University exams |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53107764 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2020-06-19 |access-date=2020-06-19}}</ref> Also in 2017, prospective Chemistry student Brian White faced deportation at the hands of the [[Home Office]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/30/brian-white-student-with-oxford-place-does-not-know-what-to-do-if-deported-immigration?|title=Student with Oxford place 'does not know what to do if deported'|last=Khomami|first=Nadia|date=2017-08-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-08-30|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> but was able to take up his place at the college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2017/09/04/brian-white-oxford-bound-wolverhampton-student-wins-battle-to-stay-in-the-uk/|title=Brian White: Oxford-bound Wolverhampton student WINS battle to stay in the UK|last=Scott|first=John|website=Expressandstar.com|language=en|date=September 4, 2017|access-date=2017-09-05}}</ref>