Marjorie is the medieval Scottish-English form of Margery — from Margaret, Greek margarites (pearl). **A top-25 US baby name from 1915 to 1935**. **Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)** — **American journalist and environmentalist whose 1947 book *The Everglades: River of Grass* — and seven decades of activism that followed — saved the Florida Everglades from being drained and developed**. **Lived to age 108; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton at age 103 (1993)**. **Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — site of the 2018 mass shooting — was named in her honor; the surviving students became the Never Again MSD gun-control movement**. **Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)** — Pulitzer for *The Yearling* (1939). **Marjorie Merriweather Post** — heiress and Mar-a-Lago founder.
Subject of Jack E. Davis's *An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century* (2009).
Marjorie reduces to eight — the number of Everglades savior.