 Margaret Hasluck was born Margaret Hardie and graduated from Aberdeen University where she received Honors in Classics in 1907, and then went to Cambridge, completing her studies with honours in 1911.She was not awarded a degree because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948.Hasluck then attended the British School in Athens and worked in the field at Pisidian antioch and published, ""The Shrine of Men Askaenos at Pisidian Antioch"" and ""Dionysos at Smyrna"".