margaret webb am

(NEE WELLINGTON)
MAC.ROB Student, 1956-1959
PORTRAIT GALLERY INDUCTEE, 2014
B. Ed., PostGrad Dip. Business Mgt., Dip. Phys. Ed.
Order of Australia Medal recipient, 2007
principal & educator

With a long and successful career in education, Margaret spent 44 years in the industry before her retirement in 2007. Her last role before retiring was as Principal of Toorak College, Mount Eliza, an independent school for girls on the Mornington Peninsula. Margaret held that position for seven years, and prior to that was Deputy Principal, Head of Campus, at Caulfield Grammar School Wheelers Hill for four years and Deputy Headmistress of St. Michael’s Grammar School for nine years.

Margaret has a history of involvement in girls’ physical education, Indigenous education, national and international mentoring programs, as well as women’s leadership and development, including serving as a Director of the Lyceum Club Board.

She has a strong and enduring connection with Mac.Rob. While at Mac.Rob, Margaret was Deputy School Captain (1959) and Nereids House Captain (1959). She went on to teach physical education at Mac.Rob from 1966-1968 and from 1972-74. In 1998, Margaret commenced a speech night award for a Year 9 girl in memory of her sister. The first recipient of that award was Kate Bridgman, who later became School Captain and then President of the Palladians Association. Margaret became President of Palladians in 2010 and was also a member of the School Council during her time as President, finishing in 2019. She has been a member of the Mac.Rob Foundation since its inception in 2015.

Margaret chaired the Outdoor Education Group Board for eight years and is currently a Director of the Outdoor Education Foundation as well as a Director of the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School, a transition school for Indigenous children from remote communities of the Northern Territory and country Victoria. She is currently a Director of the Council of Kingswood College Box Hill. She acts as a mentor with Teach for Australia, Leadership Victoria and the African Think Tank. She has been a Director and is a member of the Invergowrie Foundation, a charitable trust aimed at promoting and advancing girls’ and womens’ education in Victoria. She has also been President of Girls’ Sport Victoria and Chair of Fit to Drive Mornington Peninsula.

In 2007, Margaret was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Toorak College as Principal, developing sequential education programs in outdoor education and for services to girls’ sport. In 2023, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to education governance, to Indigenous students, and as a mentor.

Margaret is married with two children.