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Scota c545BC-c455BC legendary
mother of all Scots
Scathach of Skye c520BC-c490BC
legendary warrior woman
Aife of Alba c510BC-c480BC
legendary warrior woman
Lady of Calidones c170-c220 tribal
queen of Argentocoxos, moral
views recorded by imperial Cassius
Dio
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Triduana (St Treadwell) 360-440
religious hermit and healer
Bridget of Ulster (St Bride) c452525 associated with fertility &
midwifery
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Taneu (St Theneu/Enoch) c500c550 princess of Lothian, banished
in pregnancy, mother of Mungo
Languoreth c550-c605 queen
consort of Strathclyde
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Abb of Berenicia (St Abb) c600-c683
monastic founder, influential
abbess
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Raegnmeld c612-c655 great grand
daughter of king Urien of Rheged,
wife of Oswy sometime king of
Bernicia
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Audrey of Berenicia (St Audrey)
c620-679 queen consort, monastic
founder,
Alchfled of Berenicia c625-c660
princess, queen consort
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Eanfled 626-c690 queen consort,
married her father’s enemy
Coblaith c640-690 notable
daughter, reason now unknown
Iurminburg c648-c700 sharp
tongued & politically active queen
consort, later abbot
Tomnat c650-695 queen consort of
Lorne
Aelffled of Berenicia c654-c673
princess, abbess and power-broker
of state
Osthryo c655-697 active &
influential queen consort
Der-Ilei c665-c700 enigmatic
queen and mother of kings
Cuthburh c675-c730 queen
consort, abbot
Caintigerna 690-734 hermit
Máel Muire c840-913 child of
pictish king Kenneth MacAlpin,
partner and parent of irish kings
Aud the Deepminded c850-c900
wise widow & tribal leader given
ship burial
Finella c940-c999 carried out plot
to assassinate king who had killed
her son
Bethóc c1000-c1050 child of
Malcolm II
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Gruoch ingen Boite c1000–1054
queen of Mac Bethad mac
Findlaích, model for lady Macbeth
Ingebjorg Thorfinn of Orkney
c1005-c1075 queen consort of
Scotland, later died or put aside
Margaret of Scotland c.1045–1093
queen consort, learned and pious
embroiderer, institutional
reformer, exemplary “just ruler”
founded pilgrims’ ferry across the
Forth and restored Iona Abbey
Maud de Senlis 1071-1131 queen
consort and religious patron
Matilda of Scotland c1080-1118
queen consort of culture and
influence for good, corresponded
with world leader while pious and
devoted to lepers and the poor
Mary of Boulogne c1082-1115
highly cultured force for good,
much admired for her intelligence
and generosity
Affric of Galloway c1094-c1140 sea
king princess & queen consort of
Man
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Ada de Warenne 1123-1178
politically active “king mother”,
religious gifter
Orabilis de Quincy Gilchrist c1150c1202 joined her northern lands to
Anglo French families, religious
benefactor
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Bethoc of the Isles c1157-c1207
prior of Iona, perhaps
commissioned its psalter
Ermengarde de Beaumont c11651233 queen consort active in
scottish affairs
Margaret of Scotland and Kent
c1190-1259 independent princess
and noblewoman
Isabella of Scotland & Norfolk
c1198-c1260 princess and
noblewoman
Margaret of Scotland & Pembroke
c1205-1244 princess &
noblewoman
Joan of England 1210-1238 queen
consort of Scotland, pilgrim
Isabella of Menteith c1210-c1265
heiress, unsuccessful in face of
murder accusation
Dervorgilla Balliol of Galloway
1210-1290, statesman, pious
patron, founded convents, abbeys,
Balliol College
Margaret of England 1240-1275
queen consort of Scotland,
unhappy at first, kept strong
influence on father’s useful power
Marjory Carrick de Bruce c12401292 allegedly forced dead
husband’s battle companion to
marry her
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Ragnhild Simundsdatter c1250c1300 woman who on her own
behalf publicly accused powerful
men of rent fraud
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Evota of Stirling c1250-1310
property owner and garrison
supplier
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Christiana MacRuairi c1270-c1325
heiress supporter of Bruce,
religious patron
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Christian Bruce c1270-1357 active
political resistance leader
Marion Braidfute c1275-1297
legendary lover of William Wallace
Marjorie Comyn of Dunbar c1275c1330 political force in ebb and
flow of her times
Agnes Comyn of Strathearn c1280c1330 political force in her time,
banished and imprisoned
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Margaret of Norway c1282-c1290
queen-designate
Isabella MacDuff Comyn c1285c1314 decisive female enthroner
of Robert I but hung up in an
outdoor cage by his enemies
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Elizabeth de Burgh Bruce c12891327 queen consort, prisoner,
king’s mother
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Marjory de Schireham c1290-c1340
earliest non-male customs
collector
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Marjory Bruce Stewart 1294-c1317
king’s daughter, caged prisoner,
king’s mother
Joanna Menteith of Strathearn
c1308-c1366 notable for her
successive widowhoods
Agnes Randolph (Black Agnes)
c1312–1369 chatelan of Dunbar,
defender against 6 month siege
Amy MacRuairi c1315-c1375
dispossessed heiress and religious
patron
Joan de la Tour 1322-1362 queen
consort
Euphemia Ross Randolph 13291389 queen consort of some
influence
Katherine Mortimer c1330-1360
shadowy mistress of the king
Margaret Drummond (Logie)
c1330-c1373 queen consort of
restless ambition
Ellen Carrick 1342-c1408 prior,
possibly unjustly removed
Meg of Abernethy c1355-c1405
harper
Annabella Drummond c1360-1401
queen consort, popular political
force for good
Joan Beaufort c1400-1445 queen
consort of Scotland with her own
political identity
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Katherine Douglas c1410-c1450
“Kate Barlass” supposed protector
of the king
Margaret Stewart 1424-1445
princess of Scotland, poet in
literary & musical circles, married
Dauphin of France
Elizabeth Dunbar Douglas Gordon
Colquhoun c1425-c1494
celebrated woman of her time,
signatory to contract
Isabella Stewart c1426-1494
princess of Scotland, widow of
Duke of Burgundy, collected &
commissioned devotional works
Margaret Douglas 1426-c1512
heiress struggling to hold on to
coveted lands
Eleanora Stewart c1428-1480
princess of Scotland, wife and
regent of austrian archduke and a
literary patron in scots, german,
latin & french in her own right,
owned romances and devotional
works
Janet Dunbar c1430-c1465 gave
earliest known signature by scots
woman in 1454
Aithbreac Inghean Coirceadail
c1430-c1480 poet, early &
outstanding non-male bardic
composer
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Isabel Bras Williamson 1430-1493
cloth merchant, burgess, trading
with Europe
Joanna Stewart Douglas c1430c1500 princess of Scotland, 13
years with her sisters in France
before marriage & motherhood,
reportedly mute
Mary Stewart van Borselen c14321465 princess of Scotland, became
the admiral of burgundy’s partner
Mary of Guelders c1433-c1463
queen consort & regent of clear
constructive, diplomatic and
governing abilities
Annabella Stewart Gordon c1434c1500 princess of Scotland, spent
her teens in the court of savoy
Mary Stewart Boyd Hamilton
c1450-c1488 princess of Scotland,
acted against the wishes of her
father the king
Margaret of Denmark c1457-1486
queen consort, showed political
acumen in crisis
Margaret Stewart c1460-c1503
princess of Scotland, turned down
a royal marriage for personal
reasons
Iseabail ni Mheic Cailein (Isabella
Stewart Campbell) c1460-c1510
poet in classical bardic language
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Isabella Hoppringle c1470-1538
prioress and spy
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Marion Boyd Muir c1475-c1559
mistress of James IV
Margaret Drummond c1477-1502
mistress of James IV, perhaps
poisoned to allow Tudor marriage
Elizabeth Ker Scott Rutherford
c1478-1548 burned as bloodfeud
victim
Alison Douglas c1480-c1530
struggling woman of beauty, piety,
virtuous repute
Alison Rough c1480-1535
merchant and property holder,
executed for murder
Janet Kennedy Gordon Lady Bothwell c1480-1547 mistress of the
king, spent later years looking after
interests of herself & children,
playing system to her advantage
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Jane Hepburn Seton c1480-c1558
“wise & noble lady”, generous
religious patron
Margaret Crichton of Rothes 1483c1546 customs collector
(the) Blak Lady c1485-1520
entertainer at court and
tournaments of James IV
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Janet Douglas Lyon Campbell
c1490-1537 forceful Douglas
advocate & apologist, burned at
the stake for treason
Isobel Hoppar c1490-c1540 wealthy
merchant’s daughter, landowner,
governess of Margaret Douglas and
a powerful political figure in
Scotland
Janet Pringle c1495-c1565 prioress
and spy
Muriel Calder Campbell 1498-c1575
progenitor
Jane Forman Oliphant c1500-c1560
illegitimate daughter of
archbishop, conveyed large dowry
to husband
Marion Haliburton Home c1500c1563 pragmatic negotiator in her
family’s interest
Elizabeth Lamb c1500-c1575
prioress reprimanded then
exonerated for helping foreign
troops
Marion Ogilvy Douglas c1501-1575
cardinal’s mistress, who by writing,
law, or foreign bankers, managed
her estate single-handed
Margaret Beaufort Tudor 1489–
1541 queen consort of Scotland,
diplomatist
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Janet Stewart Fleming 1502–1562
la Belle Écossaise daughter of
James IV of Scotland, governess to
Mary, Queen of Scots, briefly
mistress of Henry II of France, by
whom had legitimated son: Henri
d'Angoulême
Janet Rynd c1504-1553 cofounded
Magdalen hospital, successful
merchant and negotiator
Euphemia Leslie c1508-1570
prioress in legal & physical dispute
for succession, left a will &
testament & pensions for the nuns
Hellen Stirk Ranaldsone c1510-1544
executed by drowning for failing to
call on virgin mary in childbirth,
and for associating with her
husband and 4 other men (all
executed) who disputed on the
scriptures
Katherine Mayne Cant c1513-c1565
condemned to death while
pregnant, she escaped
Mary of Guise 1515-1560 queen
consort, queen regent, of
intelligence and fortitude
Janet Newton Ker Halliburton
c1515-c1570 heiress in an era
when women could be prey to unscrupulous guardians who demand
a share of their inheritance
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Madeleine of France 1520-1537
ailing princess
Jane Chisholm Stirling c1520-c1565
illegitimate daughter of bishop,
conveyed large dowry to husband
with more later when church lands
were dispersed
Katherine Campbell Lindsay c15201578 heiress who worked hard to
secure the future of her children
Lilias of Ancrum c1525-1545
perhaps legendary female Flodden
warrior
Janet Fockart Todd Fowler
Hathoway c1525-1596 merchant
and moneylender
Agnes Campbell MacDonnell O’Neill
c1525-c1601 fluent and intelligent
Scottish-irish link in resisting and
negotiating with tudor forces
Margaret Beaton Lindsay c1526c1586 illegitimate daughter of
cardinal, carried large dowry to
husband whom she later left
Katherine Ruthven Campbell of
Glenorchy c1528-1584 estate
manager and protestant patron
Agnes Sampson c1538-1591
midwife and healer, executed as a
witch
Margaret Douglas of Lennox 1515–
1578 poet, diplomatist, secured
Union of Crowns for grandson
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Annas Keith Stewart Campbell
c1540-1588 prominent political
figure, widow of Regent Moray,
correspondent
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Mary Livingston c1541–1579
noblewoman & childhood
companion of Mary, Queen of
Scots and daughter of her
guardian. Labelled lusty by Knox
Mary Stuart of Scots 1542-1587
queen consort, reigning queen,
deposed queen, prisoner; a brave
victim in tragedy
Mary Fleming 1542-c1590 noble
grand-daughter of James IV,
childhood companion of Mary
Queen of Scots
Margaret Bain 1542-1597
knowledgeable midwife burned as
a witch
Mary Beaton 1543–1598
noblewoman and attendant of
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jane Gordon Sutherland Ogilvie
1545-1629 managed vast family
estates, a “virtuous & comelie lady,
judicious, excellent memorie &
great understanding , she brought
to a prosperous end many hard &
difficult bussiness”
Marjory Bowes 1547-1560 first
wife of John Knox
Jean Scott Ker c1548-c1600 estate
factor, catholic protector
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Margaret Stewart of Ochiltree
c1548-1611 second wife of John
Knox
Mary Seton 1549–1615 courtier,
accomplished hairdresser, attendant to the queen, assisted escape
from Loch Leven, later a nun
Euphame MacCalzean c1550-1591
burned alive as a witch after giving
an unusually good defence
Alison Balfour of Stennes 15501594 healer, brave victim of
judicial torture
Finola MacDonnell O’Donnell
c1552-c1610 marriage cemented
Scottish Irish alliance with a dowry
of 1200 scots mercenaries
Elizabeth Stewart of Lennox &
Arran 1554-1595 courtier &
political leader, acted as governor
of the realm
Mary (Marie) Maitland Lauder
c1560-1596 manuscript preserver
and poet
Margaret Aitken c1560-1597
assumed witch, falsely implicated
hundreds more, to their execution
and her own
Janet Spaldarge c1560-1597
executed as a witch
Christian Lindsay c1560-c1605
cook, possibly poet, in the royal
household
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Elizabeth Douglas Hay c1565-c1610
learned court poet and sonneteer
Helen Grahamslaw Ker c1565c1615 heiress widow saved from
Turnbulls by union of crowns
Helen Hay Livingston c1565-1627
royal tutor, left deathbed
confession & conversion to
Protestantism
Isobell Young c1565-1629 burned
for witchcraft, but gave good
account of her behaviour and
failings of her neighbours
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Bessie Wright c1565-c1630 healer
Elizabeth Douglas Fife c1565-c1630
poet
Margaret Hartside c1570-c1625
royal servant silenced & exiled for
indiscretion
Esther Langlois Inglis Kello c15711624 court calligrapher
Henrietta Stewart Gordon 15731642 courtier, defender of
Catholicism and of her husband’s
estates during his banishments
Helen Guthrie 1574-c1625
lambasted king with critical
petition, later received by the
queen
Anna of Denmark 1574-1619 queen
consort, powerful force in politics
and culture (architecture,
jewellery, theatre)
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Katherine Hugone c1575-c1610
victim of severe violence by male
gang whose leader was executed
Arbella Stuart 1575–1615 musician,
linguist, noblewoman, imprisoned
for dynastic marriage, died after
hunger strike
Beatrix Leslie Moffat c1577-1661
midwife executed for witchcraft
Jean Livingston Kincaid of Warriston 1579-1600 strangled & burnt
for husband’s murder, her preexecution words recorded her
penance in ballad form
Margaret Cunningham Hamilton
Maxwell c1579-1623 “that
virtuous lady”, writer
Margaret Burges Gillespie c15791629 small local dealer
condemned as witch
Helen Rogie c1580-1597 executed
as a witch
Elizabeth Melville Colville 15821640 prolific & distinguished poet,
radical presbyterian, earliest
known Scottish woman writer to
have her work in print, most
famous for Ane Godlie Dreame
Jane Drummond Ker c1583-1643
lady in waiting to James’s queen
Anna and a prudent court spy for
Spanish interests
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Isobel Gowdie c1585-c1665
confessed witch, described hidden
spirit world in vivid detail
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Bessie Clarkson c1595-c1625
parishioner of conviction, a casestudy of guilt
Barbara Mackenzie of Kintail c1595c1630 survivor of domestic abuse
Agnes Finnie c1595-1645
shopkeeper & moneylender,
executed for witchcraft
Anna Hume c1595-c1655
fascinating proto-feminist
renaissance writer, poet and
translator
Elizabeth Stewart 1596-1662
queen of Bohemia and Elector
Palatine, popular and courageous
“queen of hearts”
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Mary Erskine Mar 1599-c1670
secret protector of Scottish regalia
Elizabeth Douglas Ogilvie c 1600c1643 secret protector of Scottish
regalia
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Mary King c1600-c1645 widow,
successful city centre tailor & cloth
merchant
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Fionnghal Chaimbeul c1600-1648
poet
Diorbhail nic a’Bhruthainn “Dorothy
Brown” c1600-c1650 jacobite
poet & songwriter
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Maggie Wall c1600-1657 burned as
a witch
Jennie Geddes 1600-1660, trader,
protester
Grissel Jaffray Butchart c1600-1669
burned as a witch
Mistress Rutherford c1600-c1675
author of a spiritual autobiography
Christian Caldwell (John Dicksone)
c1610-c1650 indicted as a crossdressing witchfinder
Margaret Mitchel c1610-c1650
prophet
Margaret McLachlan c1614-c1685
covenanter disputedly reprieved or
executed
Isobel Grant (Iseabail Dhubh
Thulach) c1615-c1675 provoked
murderous rivalry between suitor
clans
Barbara MacKay (Lady Reay) c1615c1690 poet, historian, witty and
skilful host
Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruadh
(Mary MacLeod) c1615-c1707
innovative praise-singer poet of
gaelic resurgence
Maud Galt Dickie c1620-c1670
lesbian accused of witchcraft
Christian Fletcher Grainger c1620c1680 secret protector of Scottish
regalia
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Gormshuil Mhor “Gormla”c1620c1700 witch figure in gaelic
tradition, feared but treated with
respect & immunity
Anna Mackenzie of Balcarres &
Argyll 1621-1707 heiress in royal
favour, kept her lands on
husband’s execution
Anne Murray Halkett 1623-1699
writer, royalist, community
midwife, physician & herbalist
Margaret Lylestoun Hardie
“Midside Maggie” c1625-c1680
tenant farmer who amazed her
husband and their landlord by her
ingenuity & perseverance
Lilias Gillespie Skene 1626-1697
quaker author, prophet, poet
Elizabeth Murray Tollemache
Maitland 1626-1698 heiress,
royalist agent, courier and patron,
much lampooned for her scheming
Mary Erskine Kennedy Hair 16291707 shopkeeper, businessman,
philanthropist, early supporter of
women’s education
Margaret Wemyss 1630-1648
young lute player & manuscript
compiler
Anne Hamilton Douglas 1632-1716
long remembered good duchess in
her own right, who reclaimed
estates & invested in working
enterprises for local communities
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Jane Watson Muir c1635-1695
tobacconist and philanthropist
Agnes Campbell Anderson (Lady
Roseburn) 1637-1716 powerful in
business as printer & publisher,
nephew treasurer of France
Marion Fairlie Veitch 1638-1722
memoir writer, support to
persecuted husband
Elspeth McEwan c1640-1698 late
allegation and execution as witch
Isabel Mackenzie of Seaforth
c1640-1715 estate manager
Lucky Wood c1650-1717 exemplary
innkeeper celebrated by Ramsay
Anna Scott of Buccleuch &
Monmouth 1651-1732 heiress,
unhappily wed to royal blood, kept
her lands on husband’s execution
Helen Alexander Currie 1653-1729
left a testament to radical religion
(Society folk) against corruption of
the day
Janet Horne 1655-1727 last alleged
witch to be executed
Elizabeth Tollemache Campbell
1659-1735 estate manager,
philanthropist
Mairearad Nighean Lachlainn
c1660-c1730 poet of the
macleans lamenting decline
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Sìleas MacDonnell na Ceapaich
c1660-1729 poet alert to gaelic
bardic tradition
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Grizel Hume Baillie 1665-1746
attractive songwriter, poet,
heroine, businessman
Margaret Wilson c1667-c1685
covenanter disputedly reprieved or
executed
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Jean Gordon Faa c1670-1746 ,
mother of gypsy sons, banished
from Scotland, a Jacobite drowned
by Hanoverian mob, inspiration for
Scott’s Meg Merrilees
Winifred Herbert Maxwell of
Nithsdale 1672–1749 jacobite,
daringly freed husband on eve of
his execution
Penelope Mackenzie MacDonald
c1675-1745 estate manager for a
last bastion of classic gaelic
culture, active in support for
catholicism and jacobite intrigue
Elizabeth Halkett Wardlaw 16771727 poet, balladeer
Rachel Chiesley Erskine, Lady
Grange 1679-1745 abducted by
husband’s plot and held in St Kilda
against her will
Violante Larini 1682-1741 ropedancer, acrobat, actor, manager,
teacher
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Christian Shaw 1684-1750 witch
accuser, threadmaking pioneer
Susanna Montgomery of Eglinton
1690–1780 jacobite, famed beauty
& linguist, supported poets,
writers, art, music, literature,
science, philosophy, history
Beetty Dick 1693-1773 town crier
Sibilla Lyon c1695-1754 rouping
woman (ie valued & sometimes
auctioned persons possessions
after death)
Jeanie Cameron 1695-1773 raised
troops for the Jacobites
Janet Anderson 1697-1761
successful merchant, Merchant
Company member
Jane Douglas Stewart 1698-1753
at age 50 produced a disputed son
who inherited her paternal estates
Jean Cameron c1698-1772
jacobite, rode to standard at
Glenfinnan with 300 men
Mary Robertson Adam 1699-1761
wide correspondent, architects’
wife & mother
Mary Maxwell of Nithsdale &
Traquair 1700-1769 Jacobite
Margaret MacLeod MacDonald
c1700-1780 loyal jacobite, helped
prince’s flight
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Jean Adam 1704–1765 poet:
there’s nae luck aboot the hoose
Elizabeth Blachrie Blackwell 1707–
1758 botanical illustrator, author
and engraver
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Maggie Dickson 1708-1770 fishwife
hanged and recovered to long life
Margaret Masterton 1709-1737
city apprentice and shopkeeper
238.
May Drummond c1710-1772
quaker fundraiser for infirmary
239.
Helen Walker 1710-1791 canny yet,
principled, Scott’s model for
Jeannie Deans
Alison Rutherford Cockburn 17131794 poet, songwriter, society
hostess, autobiographer
Elizabeth Mure c1715-c1751 land
improver, perceptive commentator
on 18th century scotland
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Margaret Steuart Calderwood
1715-1774 diarist: dominant,
capable & delightful
Margaret Kennedy Morice 17181800 respected non-male baker
whose firm took on many
apprentices
Catriona nic Fhearghais (Christiana
Ferguson) c1720-c1760 poetsongwriter
Mrs McGhie c1720-c1780
reputable innkeeper
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Louisa Cleghorn c1720-c1780 sicknurse
Clementina Walkinshaw 1720-1802
jacobite lover of Prince Charlie
Flora MacDonald 1722-1790
jacobite heroine, charmed Johnson
& Boswell, later dictated her story
of 1746 events
Margaret Mackay c1722-c1814
victim of the Sutherland clearances
Katharine Read 1723-1778
portraitist and pastellist -“the first
professionally trained woman
artist in Scotland”
Anne Farquharson Mackintosh
1723-1787 pivotal jacobite
Elizabeth Maguire Cunningham
1724-1801 poor girl to titled lady,
patron of Robert Burns
Hannah Swan Robertson 1724c1808 autobiographer, writer on
fancy-work and cookery, appealed
to Scots Ladies to redress their
backwardness in house-keeping in
a spirit of improvement
Sarah Achurch Ward 1726-1771
actor & theatre manager
Mary Campbell Coke 1726-1811
journal & letter writer, eccentric
Barbara Black Blackwell 1727-1793
first endowed marischal Chair of
chemistry
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Jean Elliot 1727-1805 lyricist
256.
Elizabeth Rutherford Scott 17291789 writer of poetry, letters and
memoirs,
257.
Sophia Johnston c1730-c1810 selftaught carpenter & blacksmith,
eccentric, first origin of Robin Gray
song
Margaret Laidlaw Hogg 1730-1813
singer, tale-teller, tradition-bearer
of vast repertoire, complained of
Scott’s editing “they war made for
singing an no for reading; and
they’re nouther right spelled nor
right setten down”
Janet Mackay c1731-c1768 wife of
murder victim
Frances Wallace Dunlop 1730-1815
eloper, inheritor, widow, Burns
correspondent & admirer, royalist
Agnes Broun 1732–1820 singer,
steeped in oral traditions which
she passed to her son, Robert
Burns
Elizabeth Gunning Hamilton
Campbell 1733-1790 beauty and
society hostess
Marjorie Fidler Cowan 1734-1819
businessman
Winifred Maxwell Constable 1736—
1801 jacobite, rebuilt Terregles,
friend and patron of Robert Burns
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Mary Leslie Walker 1736-1821
instruc-tional novelist with
unconventional life
Janet Schaw c1737-1801 diarist
and travel writer
Janet Mathewson Keiller 1737-1813
city confectioner shopkeeper,
devised light chip marmalade and
set up long-lasting firm in son’s
name
Margaret Montgomerie “Peggie”
Boswell 1738-1789 clever, witty
consort of diarist
Elspeth Buchan 1738-1791 sect
leader
Elizabeth Clendon Baker c17391778 actor and elocution teacher
Jean Marishall c1740-c1800
novelist and playwright of works
promoting more equal relations of
the sexes
Sibilla “Sibbie” Hutton c1740-1808
well known shopkeeper, made
buying trips to London, pursued
debtors through courts
Mary Macpherson Clark c1740c1815 poet of social justice
Isabel Pagan c1740–1821 poet
Menie Trotter c1740-c1830 noted
conversationalist
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Willielma Maxwell Campbell (Lady
Glenorchy) 1741-1786 founder of
evangelical chapels, supported
SPCK
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Isobel Pagan 1741-1821 poet
Isabella Marshall Graham 17421814 educater & poor-relief
worker
Anne Home Hunter 1742-1821
lyrical poet, providing texts to at
least nine of Joseph Haydn's 14
songs in English.
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Sarah Maze Murray Aust 1744-1811
travel writer
281.
Susan Scott Carnegie 1744-1821
poor relief campaigner
282.
Nellie Hutton Kidd c1745-c1805
ran city centre millinery &
haberdashery warehouse and
boarding house for young ladies
Elizabeth Grant Murray 1745-1814
songwriter
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Anne Forbes 1745-1840 portrait
artist
Mary Ann Clayton Radcliffe 1746c1811 writer, shop- coffee houseand boarding house keeper,
seamstress, chaperone, governess,
wrote An Attempt to Recover the
Rights of Women from Male
Usurpation
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Anna Gordon Brown 1747-1810
singer and archetypal source for
Scots ballads
Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock 17471815 diarist, letter writer and clan
chief
Jane Maxwell Gordon c1749-1812
political hostess & matchmaker,
agricultural reformer
Anne Seymour Conway Damer
1749-1828 sculptor, traveller,
model for Lady Maclaughlan in
Susan Ferrier’s Marriage
Anna Campbell c1750-c1780 gaelic
poet of intense grief
Helen Gloag 1750-c1800 in legend
at least, captured by corsairs for
sultan’s harem
Eglantine Maxwell Wallace 17501803 boisterous writer, dramatist,
advocate of peace and reform
Frances Scott Douglas 1750-1817
kind, clever, traveller
correspondent & mother
Helen Craik c1751-1825 poet
&novelist of dark experience,
aware of economic & sexual
double standards in patriarchy
Anne Lindsay Barnard 1750–1825
author of the ballad Auld Robin
Gray, travel writer, artist and
socialite
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Henrietta Marchant Liston 17511828 diarist and travel writer
Hannah Hodge 1751-c1838
coalminer, could carry up to 200
kilos a time
Charlotte Murray of Strathallan
1754-1808 gentlewoman and
botanist
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Louisa Stuart 1757-1851 writer
Elizabeth Hamilton 1758-1816
novelist, poet, educationalist,
moral philosopher
Grace Dalrymple Elliott 1758–1823
socialite, writer, partner of Duc
d’Orleans, eye witness at French
Revolution
Margaret Chalmers 1758-c1825
carer, poet & literary
correspondent
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Janet Little Richmond (“The Scotch
Milk-maid”) 1759-1813 poet,
head dairymaid
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Agnes Craig Maclehose (Clarinda)
1759–1841 poet, Burns
correspondent
Tibbie Tamson 1760?-,1790 Selkirk
victim commemorated to this day
307.
Elizabeth Fulhame c1760-c1810
experimental chemist, strong
feminist views, ‘ingenious and lively’
pioneer of photographic imaging on
cloth, work predates researches of Sir
John Herschel, Jöns Jakob Berzelius,
and Thomas Wedgwood
308.
Jean Glover 1760-1810 travelling
singer, songwriter
Jane Anne Cranstoun c1760-1835
part of her sister Helen Cranson
Stewart’s intelligent circle which
impressed Walter Scott, model for
Diana Vernon in Rob Roy
Christian Cowper c1760-1843
midwife kept casebook of her
3,948 deliveries
Alison Begbie (Elizabeth Gebbie)
1762-1823 Burns’ Cessnock lass
Joanna Baillie 1762-1851 poet and
dramatist
Anne Bannerman 1765–1829 poet,
street ballad singer and seller
Jean Armour 1765–1834 belle of
Mauchline & wife of Robert Burns
Christian Dalrymple 1765-1838 left
great estate & library by father,
diarist
Helen D’Arcy Cranstoun Stewart
1765-1838 poet, clever
entertainer, wife of Dugald Stewart
& host to many student boarders
later well-known like Palmerston
Elizabeth Sutherland LevesonGower 1765-1839 landlord
associated with the Sutherland
clearances
Carolina Oliphant Nairne 1766–1845
song writer and song collector
sensitive to traditional idioms
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Margaret Campbell (Highland
Mary) 1766-c1786 domestic
servant, Burns’s lover
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Margaret Cullen 1767-1837
novelist
322.
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Jackie Crookstone 1768-1797 antimilitia campaigner, killed in
massacre
Lesley Baillie 1768-1843 Burns’
“most elegant woman in the
world”
Robina Cullen Miller 1768-1844
bred in enlightenment, went to
found radical pennsylvania
community
Charlotte Lowes Johnston Deans
1768-1859 strolling player, memoir
writer
Margaret Matthews Burns c1769c1792 celebrated prostitute,
defeated pompous Creech
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Isabell Lovi c1770-1830
businessman, inventor, glass
instrument maker
Eliza Dawson Fletcher 1770-1858
autobiographer, hostess,
philanthropist
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Dorothy Wordsworth 1771-1855
poet and diarist
Isabella Burns Begg 1771-1858
poet’s sister, schoolteacher and
visitor guide
331.
Christian Gray 1772-c1830 blind
poet in scots and english
Christian Ross Milne 1773-c1816
domestic servant and poet
Agnes Lyle of Kilbarchan 1775c1830 traditional ballad singer
Jean “Chloris” Lorimer Whelpdale
1775-1831 friend and
contemporary of Robert Burns
Anne Macvicar Grant 1775-1838
poet and author, letterwriter,
essayist
Charlotte Campbell Bury 1775-1861
poet, diarist, popular novelist
Bell Sinclair 1776-1795
journeyman mantua-maker
(Janet) Jessie Allan Harden 17761837 diarist
Jane Porter 1776-1850 historical
novelist before Scott, for her the
country’s warrior past was not only
transmitted by women but
embodied in them
Mary Primrose Shepherd 17771847 philosopher
Mary Buick Watson 1777-1854
naval wife on-board at Copenhagen and Trafalgar, prepared
Nelson’s body for embalming
Mary Balfour Brunton 1778-1818
novelist
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Anna Maria Porter 1778-1832
historical novelist, poet
Susan Macdonald 1779-1803
illustrator
Elizabeth Grierson Crichton 17791862 hoped to found new
university, founded model mental
institution in its place
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Jane Ferrier Graham 1780-1835artist who recorded the Stirling
Heads
Christina Broun Ramsey 1780-1839
botanist
Mary Fairfax Somerville 1780–1872
erudite science writer and
polymath, acclaimed as the Queen
of Science
Janet Colquhoun 1781–1846
religious writer
Ann Fraser Tytler c1781-1847
writer
Christian Isobel Todd Johnston
1781–1857 prolific journalist and
author, advocating womens rights
and other social causes, first
woman paid editor of a major
periodical, classic Scots cookery
writer (as Meg Dods)
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Isabel Fubister Gunn 1781-1861
under an alias entered the all-male
Hudson’s Bay Company, gave birth
to son at HBC post
352.
Susan Edmondstone Ferrier 17821854 novelist
Clementina Stirling-Graham 17821877 impressive impersonator,
bestselling author, translator,
beekeeper & teacher of
beekeeping
Marianne Woods c1783-c1835
teacher, claimed damages against
parents’ accusations of lewd and
indecent lesbian behaviour which
inspired play The Children’s Hour
Harriet Murray Siddons 1783-1844
actor, singer, theatre manager
Isabella (Tibbie) Shiel 1783-1878
innkeeper favoured by James Hogg
and other literary figures
Jane Pirie c1784-c1835
schoolteacher, claimed damages
against accusations of lewd and
indecent lesbian behaviour
Caroline Scott 1784-1857 novelist
Eliza Jack Forlong 1784-1859
pioneer pastoralist and sheep
selector
Barbara Johnston Flucker 17841869 fishwife
Maria Dundas Graham Callcott
1785-1842 author and traveller
Isabella Scott Gibson 1786-1838
harpist, composer, teacher
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Christian Broun Ramsay 1786-1839
plant collector following husband’s
imperial postings in N.America &
Asia, her indian herbarium alone
held 1200 specimens
Susanna Hawkins 1787-1868
domestic servant, cowherd, poet,
wandering minstrel
Maria Henderson Short c1787-1869
observatory owner
Lucky Laird Log Hare c1788-c1848
involved in supplying bodies to
anatomists, gave evidence to
escape prosecution
Charlotte Waldie Eaton 1788-1859
travel writer, novelist
Jane Nasmyth 1788-1867
landscape artist, art teacher &
business assistant
Margaret Stuart Hamilton TyndallBruce 1788-1869 chatelan of
Falkland
Ann Anderson 1789-1855 founder
of girls’ school
Mary MacDougall Macdonald 17891872 gaelic poet, hymn writer
Mary Diana Dods Douglas c1790c1830 wrote and dressed as
“Walter Sholto Douglas”
Marion Corbett 1790-1840 joint
author with sister Margaret
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Charlotte Clavering 1790-1847
literary adviser
Barbara Nasmyth 1790-1870 artist
and teacher
Margaret Nasmyth 1791-1869
artist and teacher
Margaret Corbett 1792-1840 joint
author with sister Marion
Anne Drysdale 1792-1853 pioneer
emigrant sheepfarmer in Australia
Betsy Miller 1792–1864
entrepreneur, first woman
registered as ship’s captain by
Board of Trade
Jane Waldie Watts 1793-1826
artist and travel writer
Elizabeth Nasmyth Terry
Richardson 1793-1862 artist,
designer, teacher
Margaret Bayne Wilson 1795-1835
missionary pioneer of female
education in India
Frances “Fanny” Wright 1795–1852
lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, social reformer,
founded community to prepare US
slaves for emancipation, attacked
organized religion, capitalism and
greed, advocated birth control,
sexual freedom for women, and
free public education for all over 2s
in state-aided boarding schools
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James Miranda Barry (Margaret
Bulkely) c1795-1865 army
surgeon, inspector general of
hospitals (as a man)
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Janet Thomson Hamilton 1795—
1873 poet, spinner, latterly blind,
sympathies focus on women
workers: “slaves in all but name”.
Lucy Clementina Drummond Davies
1795–1879 author
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388.
Christina Saunders Robertson
1796-1854 painter at the Russian
court
389.
378.
Mary Mason Lyon 1797-1849,
pioneer in women’s education
390.
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380.
381.
Elizabeth Grant (of Rothiemurchus)
Smith 1797-1885 writer of
memoirs, journal contributor
Eliza Campbell Gordon-Cumming
1798-1842 fossil collector &
illustrator
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392.
Eliza Slack Fraser Greene 17981858 castaway
393.
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Ann Trail (Agnes Xavier) 1798-1872
artist, pioneering nun and educator
394.
383.
Anne Nasmyth Bennett 1798-1874
scenic artist and teacher
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384.
Catherine Sinclair 1800-1864
novelist, writer of children's
literature, philanthropist,
unmasker of Waverley and major
contributor to Scott monument
Mary Macqueen Storie c1801c1840 singer who sang nearly 50
old songs to transcribers
Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle 1801–
1866 letter writer
Jessie Fraser Ryder Pollock c18011875 actor, singer, theatre
manager
Mary Ann Baxter 1801-1884
founder of university college,
generous supporter of good works,
both local and worldwide
Mary Ann Paton Wood 1802-1864
operatic singer
Marjorie Fleming 1803-1811 child
writer and poet
Jane Wilhelmina Stirling 1804-1859
fluent in French, Chopin’s pupil,
friend and concert agent
Grace Stein Don Wallace 1804-1878
harpist, translator of women
writers
Fanny Inglis Calderon de la Barca
1804-1882 author and teacher
Charlotte Nasmyth 1804-1884 wild
landscape artist and teacher
Georgiana Gordon McCrae 18041890 portrait painter, unwilling
emigrant, influential wit & focus of
cultural life
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Mary Grant Seacole 1805-81,
nursing, food & comforts provider
in Crimea
Flora Hastings 1806-1839 poet,
caught up in intrigues around
young Victoria and wronged by
gossip
Helen Graham Tovey-Tennent
1806-1896 diarist
Margaret Thomson Mylne 18061892 suffragist, writer on the
position of women
Elizabeth Pease Nichol 1807–1897
abolitionist, anti-segregationist,
woman suffragist, chartist and
anti-vivisectionist
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403.
Frances Sara Fuller-Maitland
Colquhoun 1809-1877 poet and
hymn writer
Christian McLagan 1809-1901
pioneering field archaeologist,
historian, writer, philanthropist
412.
413.
Agnes Lennox c1810-c1860
chartist suffragist
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405.
Miss Muir c1810-c1860 chartist,
initially apologetic about speaking
in public, but thought it immoral
for a mother to fail to protest while
her children cried for bread
Margaret Stewart Herschel 18101884 lively correspondent,
hospitable hostess, illustrator
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Alicia Anne Spottiswoode Scott
1810-1900 composer, songwriter
and collector
Lydia Fraser Miller 1812-1876 ran
small school, wrote childrens
books on natural history & religion,
novelist, husband Hugh Miller’s
literary executor
Isabelle Clark Duncan 1812-1878
author
Mary Maxwell Campbell 1812-1886
composer of songs and of music
for piano & pipes
Margaret Irvine Penny 1812-1891
northern whaling pioneer
Eliza Inverarity Martyn 1813-1846
opera singer
Letitia Mactavish Hargrave 18131854 most northern european
wife in canada, wrote vivid letters
Rose Stuart Blaze de Bury 18131894 journalist, novelist, critic and
traveller
Jane Laurie Borthwick 1813-1897
hymn writer & translator with
sister Sarah
Mary Lundie Duncan 1814-1840
hymn writer
Fanny Whitaker McIan Unwin 18141897 founder Female School of Art
Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879
photographer
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Jane Smeal 1815-1885 quaker antislavery campaigner
Amelia Harris 1815-1891 singer
and preserver of traditional songs
Jessie Duncan Smyth 1815-1897
geologist and astronomical
observer
Priscilla Bright McLaren 1815-1906
campaigner for women’s rights,
social reform, at centre of a
dynasty of MPs
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Phoebe Blyth 1816–1898
educationist & philanthropist
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Marion Kirkland Reid 1817-1902
influential feminist writer: A Plea
for Woman (1843), member of
Ladies National Association for
Repeal of the Contagious Diseases
Acts
Helen Macfarlane (Howard Morton)
1818-1860 Chartist feminist
journalist and philosopher,
translator of Marx and Engels
434.
435.
Emily Jane de Flahaut, Marchioness
of Lansdowne 1819–1895 noblededicatee of Chopin’s Bolero
436.
Laidlaw Thomson 1819-1901
pianist
437.
Victoria of Saxe Coburg 1819-1901
queen, empress, correspondent,
heartfelt Scottish identity
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Mary Burton 1819-1909
educational and social reformer
“on behalf of women”
Grace Petrie 1819-1917 rescuer,
honoured by royal humane society
Margaret Peebles Bethune 18201887 midwife kept casebook of
1296 labours
Amelia Paton Hill 1820-1904 free
spirited sculptor of varied interests
Mary Moffat Livingstone 1821-1862
missionary teacher and traveller
Mairi Mhor Nan Oran (Mary
MacPherson) 1821-1898 “great
mary of the songs”, the highland
land league’s foremost poet
Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming
Maude 1822-1865 pioneer
photographer who achieved both
excellence & recognition
Mary Pirie 1822-1885 botanist &
teacher
Grizell Baillie 1822-1891 supporter
of sick & foreign missions, first
deaconess
Jane Harris 1823-1897 singer &
preserver of traditional songs
Elizabeth Johnston Hall 1823-1901
fishwife
Catherine Stafford Spence 18231906 teacher and translator
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Sarah Borthwick Findlater 18231907 hymn writer, translator with
sister Jane
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Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn
1823-1909 artist, illustrator,
painter, bird engraver
Margaret Blaikie 1823-1915
founder of orphan and emigration
home
452.
453.
Euphemia Alexander Johnston
1824-1867 lady’s nurse
recommended by Simpson in elite
childbirth
454.
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Caroline White Soule 1824-1903
universalist missionary to Scotland,
first woman ordained in UK
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447.
Anne Cundell Cousin 1824-1906
hymn writer
May Innes Sandison 1825-1888
crofter, stone dyker, exquisite
embroiderer
May Hectorson Moar 1825-1894
brave rescuer “wi’ God;s
help”honoured by RNLI & Humane
society, clearances victim
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448.
449.
Annie Parlane Macpherson 18251904 social worker, pioneer of
child-migration
Catherine Helen Spence 1825-1910
teacher, journalist, novelist,
political campaigner and social
reformer
459.
Betty Mouat 1825-1918 spinner,
handknitter, unintentional traveller
Georgina Kinnear 1826-1914
governess & headmistress
Jessie Black Campbell 1827-1907
campaigner & fundraiser for
women’s higher education
Beatrice Clugston 1827-1888
Prison & hospital visitor, founded
Dorcas society ,fundraiser for
homes for convalescents &
incurables
Elizabeth Robertson Cumming18271894 distiller & farmer of
exceptional ability
Mary White 1827-1903 quaker
temperance reformer and social
worker
Jane Elizabeth Taylour 1827-1905
suffrage and women’s movement
campaigner
Leah (Learmonth White) Dalrymple
1827-1906 campaigner for girls’
education
Jane Glen Arthur 1827-1907 social
reformer, active for women’s rights
and in support of convalescents &
medical education, first school
board member in west Scotland
Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler)
1827–1914 novelist, women
songwriters’ anthologist
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Margaret Wilson Oliphant 18281897 author, biographer, journalist
471.
Isabella Ure Elder 1828-1905 wide
ranging philanthropist and
supporter of women’s education
472.
Katherine Innes Burton 1829-1898
served with Florence Nightingale in
Crimean War
473.
Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 18301869 hymn writer
Margaret McKirdy Black 1830-1903
cookery school founder, school
board member, temperance &
suffrage supporter.
Isa Craig Knox 1831-1903 poet,
feminist & social reformer
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476.
Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop 1831-1904
explorer, writer, natural historian,
photographer
Agnes Ann Bryson 1831-1907
quaker temperance reformer &
social worker
Mary Grant 1831-1908 sculptor
and suffragist
Katharine Maria Lumsden 18311912 able, near-blind, hospital
administrator and fundraiser,
campaigned for fireguards and
cremation
Elizabeth Anderson Gray 1831-1924
fossil collector
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Christina Rainy c1832-c1900
educationist, founder of women’s
hospital in Madras
Madeline Carter Daniell 1832-1906
education campaigner, liberal,
active for women’s rights
Christian Watt Sim 1833-1923
laundress, fishwife, traveller, writer
of testament to long life in an
asylum
Jane Nicol Sang 1834-1878
mathematician
Mary Cameron Mackellar 18341890 poet and folklorist
Jane MacLaren Hogg 1834-1900
teacher, school board member,
journalist, printer & newspaper
proprietor, welfare worker,local
historian
Helen Evans Russel 1834-1903 one
of Jex-Blake’s first group of wouldbe medical students refused
graduation, active supporter of
medical education for women
Helen Evans 1834-1903
Margaret Anderson 1834-1910
fundraiser, roadside museum
creator, curio collector
Ellen Johnston (The Factory Girl)
c1835-c1873 poet and
autobiographer
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481.
Jean Logan Watson 1835-1885
racy writer of novels, biography,
guidebooks & local history, women
songwriters’ anthologist
492.
493.
482.
483.
Rachel Frances Lumsden 1835-1908
pioneering nurse, hospitals
superintendent, initiated nurses’
training, insisted on working
unpaid
494.
Louisa Stevenson 1835–1908
campaigner for women's university
education, women's suffrage &
effective well-organised nursing
495.
484.
485.
486.
487.
488.
489.
490.
491.
Emily Orme Masson c1835-1915
suffrage activist
Katie Anderson Charteris 18351918 first president of church of
scotland’s women’s guild
496.
Madeleine Hamilton Smith 1835–
1928 socialite, not proven murder
defendant
497.
Mary Anderson Marshall 1836-1910
early Paris trained doctor at
women’s hospital
498.
Jessie Seymour Irvine 1836-1887
hymn tune composer
499.
Isabella Tod 1836-1896
campaigner for women’s rights
Agnes McLaren 1837-1913
physician, catholic campaigner,
suffragist
500.
Margaret Burns Macgregor 18381901 bible woman and lady
mission superintendent
Elizabeth Thomson Shiels 18381906 formidable godmother of
scottish-american industrial
scandal and political family
Emma Maitland Stirling 1838-1907
set up nurseries and refuges for
children of working mothers,
orphans & abused, and for their
transatlantic emigration
Dinah Sowter Pearce c1838->1910
early school board member, felt
this established principle of female
representatives, gifted extensive
community institute to Govan
Flora Chalmers Sang 1838 –1925
mathematician
Agnes Buchan-Hepburn McDouall
1838-1926 gardener and plant
collector
Mary Macbean Carmichael 18381928 gaelic illustrator
Ann Dougal Bon 1838-1936
emigrant philanthropist supporter
of aboriginal entitlements and civil
rights
Mary McLean Crudelius 1839-1877
campaigner for women's education
and supporter of women's suffrage
Constance Gordon-Cumming 18371924 travel writer & explorer
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502.
503.
504.
505.
506.
507.
508.
509.
Harriet Miller Davidson 1839-1883
gift for instant music & poetry,
wrote essays, reviews, chidren’s
stories and a serial of family history
haunted by father’s suicide
Anne Jane Douglas Cupples 1839–
1896 writer and populariser of
science
Flora Clift Stevenson 1839–1905
reforming advocate for poor or
neglected children and education
for girls, pioneer member of school
boards
510.
511.
512.
Jane James Stewart Smith 18391925 artist, illustrator, historian
Jessie McLachlan c1840-1890
murder trial defendant, sentence
commuted to life imprisonment
513.
514.
Isabella Armstrong 1840-c1900
preacher, temperance and suffrage
activist
515.
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake 1840-1912
pioneer doctor, founder of
women’s hospitals
516.
Frances “Fanny” Matilda
VandeGrift Osbourne Stevenson
1840—1914 gardener, artist,
companion of Robert Louis
Stevenson
Frances Tolmie 1840-1926 folklorist
& song collector
517.
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes 1840–
1929 shakespearean scholar,
author, teacher, campaigner for
women's education & rights and
rational dress
Louisa Innes Lumsden 1840–1935
suffragist, animal welfare
campaigner, classics tutor at
Girton, Cambridge; first
Headmistress of St Leonards , Fife;
brought lacrosse to girls schools.
Lucy Elizabeth Drummond Davies
Sale-Barker (aka Lucy Villiers)
1841–1892 journalist and prolific
children's writer
Janet Galloway 1841-1909
educator, administrator
Margaret Duncan Gillespie 18411913 singer of traditional songs
Jennie Gowanlock Trott 1841-1921
Canada’s first licensed woman
physician
Bell Robertson 1841-1922
housekeeper; although not a singer
and gave no tunes, provided words
of nearly 400 traditional songs and
ballads, many of them not
otherwise recorded
Agnes Bell McLean 1841-1940
leader of scottish co-operative
women’s guild
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519.
520.
521.
522.
523.
524.
525.
526.
527.
Jessie Edmondston Saxby 18421940 author, folklorist, poet,
temperance and suffrage
campaigner
Jessie Macfarlane Brodie 18431871 itinerant preacher
528.
529.
Isabella Fyvie Mayo 1843-1914
writer, tolstoyan, campaigner
against racism
530.
Marion Brown 1843-1915
telephone exchange operator and
correspondent of limited mobility
531.
Frances Stoddard Murray 18431919 suffragist
Margaret Smith Gibson 1843-1920
traveller, semitic language scholar
(with twin Agnes
Grace Chalmers Paterson 18431925 pioneer of women’s work &
school of cookery, school board
member, temperance and suffrage
activist
Agnes Smith Lewis 1843-1926,
traveller, semitic language scholar
(with twin Margaret)
Jane Elizabeth Waterston 18431932 missionary, educationalist,
doctor committed to non-racial
South Africa and her free womens
dispensary
Rebecca Thorogood Strong 18431944 hospital matron & pioneer
of nurse training
532.
533.
534.
535.
536.
Margaret Richardson Sievwright
1844-1905 active in education,
welfare of the poor, humanitarian
and women’s rights
Christian Edington Guthrie Wright
1844–1907 co founder of the
Edinburgh School of Cookery
Annie Anderson 1845-1914
remarkable and original teacher of
modern languages
Isabella Chalmers Skea 1845-1914
head teacher, board member, led
school of 1000, campaigner for
women’ rights, careers for married
women, fresh air holidays
Lucy Bethia Colquhoun Walford
1845–1915 novelist, artist,
journalist
Emily Pringle Gordon Cathcart
1845-1932 controversial absentee
landowner who engendered great
hostility
Nora Balfour Sidgwick 1845-1936
college principal, mathematician
Meredith Jemima Brown 1846-1908
undercover researcher of lives of
poor factory girls, organised safe
facilities
Grace Campbell Neill 1846-1926
founding nursing reformer in new
zealand
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538.
539.
540.
Marion Hamilton Adams-Acton
“Jeanie Hering” 1846–1928
children’s novelist
Euphemia “Effie” Williamson
Dickson 1846-1929 power-loom
weaver & poet
Sarah “Sally” Siddons Mair 1846–
1941 women’s education and
rights campaign leader, editor,
speaker
Marion Bernstein 1847-1906 music
teacher and writer, forthright
verses on women’s rights and
current affairs
547.
548.
549.
550.
551.
541.
542.
Lavinia Laing Malcolm 1847-1920
councillor, campaigner, provost, JP,
declared herself a role model for
women in public service
552.
Flora Annie Webster Steel 18471929 novelist, campaigner for
women’s rights in India and Britain
553.
543.
Georgina Greelees Wylie 1849-1932
artist
554.
544.
545.
546.
Catherine Mackay Martin 18471937 writer, ambitious and
distinctive novelist
Rachel Cook Scott 1848-1905
education campaigner, suffragist,
editorial collaborator on
Manchester Guardian
Mary Mitchell Slessor 1848-1915,
medical missionary, womens rights
advocate, tried to stamp out ritual
rape and sacrifice
555.
556.
557.
Jessie Youille 1848-1920
temperance, womens’ mission &
suffrage campaigner
Kate Malcolm Shepherd 1848-1934
led campaign which gave NZ votes
for women in 1893, the world’s
first country to do so
Louise Alberta Campbell 1848-1939
princess, duchess, sculptor,
journalist, costume designer, active
in public life
Margaret Gray Laws 1849-1921
teacher, translator, missionary
Caroline “Carrie” Johnstone 18491929 philanthropist, gifted
speaker with welfare interest
Mary Jeune (born Susan Marie
Stewart-Mackenzie) 1849-1931
socialite, journalist, social
reformer, london county councillor
Kate Cranston Cochrane1849–1934,
tearoom creator, patron of the arts
Constance Maynard 1849-1935
teacher, college principal
Mary Fraser Tytler Watts 18491938 artist, designer, craftworker
Annie Johnston Macdonald 18491944 art bookbinder, guild of
women binders
Jessie Russell 1850-c1900 poet,
dressmaker, defends women
“struggling for daily bread” and
condemns the physical violence
they often face
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Christina Anderson 1850-1914 cofounder of Edinburgh School of
Cookery & Domestic Economy,
campaigner for women’s education
569.
570.
559.
Margaret Grieve of Coillesdene
c1850-c1930 suffrage campaigner
571.
560.
Eliza Gollan Booth Humphreys
1850-1938 novelist and essayist
(as “Rita”), autobiographer
572.
561.
Jessie Patrick Findlay 1851-1925
author, photographer, journalist,
song collector
573.
562.
563.
564.
565.
566.
567.
568.
Helen Priscilla McLaren Rabagliati
1851-1934 campaigner for health,
women’s conditions and reform
574.
Jean Dunlop Cadell 1852–1936,
actor
Margaret Duncan Baxter 1852-1881
grocer, jam and marmalade maker
Agnes Husband 1852-1929 milliner
and dressmaker, labour, suffrage &
education activist, councillor, given
freedom of city
Phoebe Anna Moss Traquair 1852–
1936 illustrator, painter,
embroiderer
Margaret Moyes Black 1853–1935
novelist and biographer
Alice Stewart Ker 1853-1943
doctor, health educator and
suffrage campaigner
575.
576.
577.
578.
Elizabeth MacLean 1854-1923
temperance, nutrition & womens
suffrage campaigner
Annie Knight Croall 1854-1927
children’s home campaigner
Mona Caird 1854–1932 writer,
essayist, campaigner for women’s
rights and against vivisection
Lily Blatherwick Hartrick 1854-1934
artist best known for flower
painting and printmaking
Annie Lorrain Smith 1854-1937
lichenologist, mycologist
Violet Graham (Duchess of
Montrose) 1854-1940 antisuffrage philanthropist presiding
over red cross, child welfare clinic,
holiday home, maternity home,
midwives training home, cottage
hospital
Florence “Florrie” Caroline Douglas
Dixie 1855–1905 traveller, war
correspondent, writer and feminist
Eliza (Isla) Stewart 1855-1910
matron, nurse leader, educationist
and activist, using skilful diplomacy
to get things done
Jessie Moffat c1855-c1910 early
school board member
Catherine Forrester-Paton 18551914 temperance campaigner &
philanthropist
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581.
582.
583.
584.
585.
586.
587.
588.
Grace Ross Cadell 1855-1918
physician & suffragist
Nellie Hunter c1855-c1920 yarn
merchant’s widow who helped run
women’s suffrage societies and
fronted the Scottish Women’s
Hospitals initiative in WW1 on
their behalf. Secretary of the
vigilance association to repress
criminal vice and public immorality
and end child prostitution.
589.
590.
591.
Florence Haig 1855-1952 artist
Dora Mina Erskine-Wemyss 18561894 founder of school of
needlework, designer, business
manager
592.
Alice Maude Maxwell 1856-1915
fronted church’s Deaconess
Institute , with practical hospital
and work in slums
593.
Elizabeth Amelia Sharp 1856-1932
editor and writer
594.
Frances Jane Cockburn HeronMaxwell 1856-1936 leader of
advanced Liberal suffragists and of
the rational dress movement
595.
Helen Hopekirk Wilson 1856-1945
pianist & composer
Mary Rose Hill Burton 1857-1900
artist
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
1857-1911 astronomer
596.
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser 1857-1930
song collector, recorder, singer and
arranger
Flora Masson 1857-1937 nursing
sister and matron, writer and
biographer, friend of Florence
Nightingale
Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon
1857 –1939 author, philanthropist,
women's interests advocate, president of the International Council
of Women, petitioned the Church
of Scotland General Assembly for
women to be ordained to ministry,
deaconate and eldership
Marie Loftus Brown 1857-1940
music hall singer-entertainer and
pantomime principal boy, the
favourite of her era
Annie Hunter Small 1857-1945
missionary, college principal
Ethel Manson Fenwick 1857-1947
matron and nursing reformer,
founded first nursing journal and
international council of nurses
Anna Morton Geddes 1858-1917
music teacher, practical social
reformer and companion of Patrick
Geddes
Lucy Broadwood 1858-1929
composer folk song collector,
singer, pianist, editor, journalist,
often with Vaughan Williams
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Frances Campbell Balfour 18581931 churchwoman, suffragist,
liberal writer, unequivocal for
equal rights in church and society
606.
607.
598.
599.
600.
601.
602.
603.
604.
605.
Margaret Hardinge Irwin 1858-1940
trade union and suffrage activist,
concerned for women
homeworkers
Grace Toynbee Frankland 18581946 microbiologist
Louisa Macdonald 1858-1949
pioneer graduate, university
college principal
Rachel McMillan 1859-1917
christian socialist, social and
suffrage reformer, free school
meals, first school clinic, night
camp for slum children, assaulted
by police, started open-air nursery
school and a training centre
608.
609.
610.
611.
Margaret Todd 1859-1918 medical
biographer, novelist, namer of
isotopes
Isabella Duncan Pearce 1859-1929
labour & suffrage activist,
journalist (as Lily Bell)
Annie S. Swan Burnett-Smith 18591943 prolific and enormously
popular novelist, journalist
Helen Spence Mackenzie 18591945 public health campaigner
612.
613.
614.
Jane (Janey) Shannon Inglis-Clark
1859-1950 rock climber &
mountaineer
Margaret McMillan 1860-1931
social and suffrage reformer and
writer, school board member, first
medical inspection of elementary
school children, free school meals,
first school clinic, Night Camp for
slum children, started Open-Air
Nursery School & Training Centre,
training college for nurses &
teachers; County councillor
Margaret Manson Graham 18601933 missionary-nurse
Euphemia Gibb Somerville 18601935 councillor, health & welfare
campaigner
Margaret Gilmour 1860-1942
artist
Chandramukhi Basu 1860-1944 of
Duff’s Free Church School (Scottish
Churches College) Calcutta, first
female MA graduate in India and
the British Empire
Elizabeth Fish 1860-1944 first
elected woman president of the
EIS educational institute of
scotland
Jessie King or Kean 1861-1889
childminder hanged for murder
Mary Gordon 1861-1941 worked
with Scottish Women’s Hospitals in
WW1
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616.
617.
618.
619.
620.
621.
622.
623.
624.
625.
626.
627.
Ella Christie 1861-1949 traveller,
Japanese gardener, landowner
Isabella [Ella] Robertson Christie
1861-1949 traveller, writer,
photographer, gardener
Ethel Walker 1861-1951 painter,
sculptor
628.
629.
630.
Anna Hogg Johnston 1862-1909
newspaper editor
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane 18621937 nurse, housing reformer,
biographer, philosopher
Helen Boog Watson Bannerman
1862-1946 childrens author and
illustrator
Mary Lamond 1862-1949
deaconess, president church of
Scotland women’s guild
631.
632.
633.
Mary Lily Walker 1863-1913 social
reformer
Margaret Jerment Barlas 1863-1926
early school board member
634.
Mary Symon 1863-1938 dialect
poet
Violet Kennedy-Erskine Jacob
1863-1946 writer, poet
Anne Geddes Gilchrist 1863-1954
folklorist & song collector
Charlotte Edith Ainslie 1863-1960
headmistress, educational
reformer
635.
636.
Hannah McGoun 1864-1913 artist,
illustrator
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan 1864–
1916 novelist, suffragist & red
cross volunteer
Elsie Maude Inglis 1864-1917,
medical reformer and advocate for
womens rights, outstanding war
work and local efforts on behalf of
women and children
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh
1864-1933 artist , decorator,
designer
Jessie Brown c1864-1937 suffragist
and early lady cyclist with sister
Nannie
Maria (May) Matilda Ogilvie
Gordon 1864–1939 eminent
geologist and palaeontologist and
campaigner for the rights and
equality of children and women
Christina Jamieson (John Cranston)
1864-1942 talented writer,
journalist, non-militant suffragist
with social conscience and
adventurous political streak
Marion Wallace-Dunlop 1864-1942
artist, suffrage activist, organiser of
women’s processional pageants
Margot (Emma) Tennant Asquith
1864-1945 socialite, author & wit
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638.
639.
640.
641.
642.
643.
644.
645.
646.
647.
Jane Glen Crawford 1864-1947 first
female inspector of domestic
economy
Jessie Rowat Newbery 1864-1948
artist and designer, embroiderer
Marion Gilchrist 1864-1952
physician, one of first two women
in Scotland to gain university
medical qualification
Emily Charlotte Thomson 18641955 medical practitioner,
pioneer GP
Jessie McGregor c1865-1906
surgeon, fellow of obstetrical
society, set up medical practice
with Elsie Inglis
648.
649.
650.
651.
652.
Mary Margaret Cameron 18651921 painter, linguist, traveller
Mabel Jones c1865-1923 doctor
providing advice & refuge for
imprisoned suffragists
Griselda Ogilvy Cheape 1865-1934
fiery anti-suffrage campaigner,
engaged in children’s nursing,
open-air sanatorium and rescue
home
Mary Elizabeth Barlow 1865-1944
head gardener
Marion Emily Angus 1865–1946
writer and poet
Constance Walton 1865- 1951
flower painter
653.
654.
655.
656.
657.
Mary Williamina Findlater 18651963 novelist & short story writer,
sometimes with sister Jane
Jessie MacLachlan Buchanan 18661916 “the scots prima donna”
world touring singer, first gaelic
recording artist
Agnes Brysson Inglis Morrison
1866-1934 founded & supervised
flag day movement
Dorothea Stewart-Murray RugglesBrise 1866-1937 collector of
Scottish music, bequeathed over
600 books & manuscripts
Nannie (Agnes Henderson) Brown
1866-1943 suffragist walker and
cyclist, travel journalist, undertook
1912 Edinburgh-London march
Helen Beatrix Potter 1866-1943
botanical and animal illustrator
and author
Stansmore Dean 1866-1944 artist
Margaret Ida Balfour 1866-1945
pioneer doctor in india, chief
medical officer for womens
services and midwifery adviser
Jane Helen Findlater 1866-1946
novelist & short story writer,
sometimes with sister Mary
Rosaline Orme Masson 1867–1947
campaigner and prolific writer of
novels, biographies, histories and
other works
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659.
660.
661.
662.
663.
664.
665.
666.
Millicent StClair-Erskine “Meddlesome Millie” 1867-1955 duchess,
renowned society hostess & writer,
instigated dozens of welfare and
practical schemes eg Highland
Home Industries, Gaelic
Association, Ambulance Unit
Helen Ann Hay 1867-1955 student
of Geddes school of arts & crafts ,
illustrator for his Evergreen and
freize-painter for his outlook tower
Marion Maclellan Campbell 18671970 leading exponent of gaelic
song & music
667.
668.
669.
670.
Mildred Bowes-Lyon Jessop 18681897 composer of opera
Alice Margaret Moorhead 18681910 medical practitioner,
pioneer GP
Jane Wilson Hannay 1868-1938
teacher, women’s welfare &
employment campaigner
Evelyn Stewart-Murray 1868-1940
gaelic folklore collector, left 250
tales, legends & songs scientifically
recorded in Perthshire dialect;
brilliant needlewoman of lace &
embroidery
Alice Edmonstone Keppel 18681947 king’s mistress, gained
wealth and some influence
Janie Allan 1868-1968 suffragist
and socialist
671.
672.
673.
674.
675.
Bessie MacNicoll Frew 1869-1904
painter
Flora Murray 1869-1923 doctor,
women’s hospital founder,
wartime hospital leader,
campaigned against forcible
feeding
Jane (Jean) Cavaye 1869-1934
matron of Humbie Children’s
Village
Marion Isabel Newbigin 1869-1934
geographer, her early training in
biology, zoology and oceanography
gave her insight into humankind’s
relation with nature and a sense of
global citizenship through place
Jane Maud Campbell 1869-1947
pioneer of libraries as centres for
community and work with
immigrant youth
Hetty (Helen Agnes Henrietta)
Tayler 1869–1951 historical writer
of 17th and 18th century
Ethel Moorhead 1869-1955 artist,
suffragist and editor
Ethel de la Coer 1869-1957
principal, school of domestic
science, food conservation
campaigner
Christian Farquharson-Kennedy
1870-1917 teacher, socialist and
school board member
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677.
678.
679.
Margaret Leask Cusiter 1870-1920
popular schoolteacher and
suffragist
684.
Ella (Elizabeth) Carmichael Watson
1870-1928 editor & promoter of
gaelic
Jessie Laurie c1870-c1940 school
board & education authority
member, councillor, JP, WW1
Scottish Women’s Hospitals
treasurer
Lily Cumming Robson 1870-1945
one of first two women in Scotland
to gain university medical
qualification
685.
686.
687.
688.
680.
Elizabeth Macadam 1871-1948
social worker, organising partner of
woman MP
689.
681.
682.
683.
Ellen Charlotte Higgins 1871-1951
mathematician, university college
principal
Alexandra Mary “Mona” Geddes
Watson 1872-1936 early medical
graduate, active suffragist,
controller of Womens Auxiliary
Army, model dairy farmer, laid
foundation for distinctive Scottish
health service
Chrystal Jessie Macmillan 18721937 suffragist, internationalist,
lawyer
690.
691.
692.
693.
694.
Jessie Chrystal Macmillan 1872–
1937 barrister, feminist, pacifist,
pioneer non-male science and
mathematics graduate; suffragist,
first non-male to plead before
Upper House, founder of Women's
Inter-national League for Peace &
Freedom
Mary Gilmour 1872-1938 artist
Jane “Jean” Stocks Greig 1872-1939
medical practitioner
Dorothea Lyness Chalmers Smith
1872-1944 pioneer doctor,
militant suffragist fire-raiser
Jane Rae Coates 1872-1959
independent labour party activist
and councillor
Cicely Mary Hammill Hamilton
1872–1952 actor, writer,
journalist, suffragist, feminist,
wartime nurse
Annie French 1872-1965 illustrator
Frances MacDonald MacNair 18731921 artist, colourist, decorator,
designer
Maggie Linck Moffat 1873-1943
actor, suffragist
(Elizabeth) Hilda Lockhart Lorimer
1873–1954 classical scholar
Anna Dixon 1873-1959 artist
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696.
Margaret Hannan Watson 18731959 school founder and head,
founded kindergarten &
convalescent holiday home for
working class children
706.
707.
Frances Helen Melville 1873-1962
academic, administrator, suffragist
708.
697.
Kate Campbell Muirhead Nicoll
1873-1980 artist, sculptor
709.
698.
699.
700.
701.
702.
703.
Annot Wilkie Robertson 1874-1925
teacher, suffrage & labour activist
Ruth Pirret 1874-1939 first Glasgow
BSc, uranium & radium isotope
researcher, university warden
710.
Mabel Royds Lumsden 1874-1941
artist-printmaker
Janet “Jenny” Lindsay Greig 18741950 medical practitioner
Agnes Pettigrew Hardie 1874-1951
shop assistant, union organiser,
speaker, pacifist, labour MP known
as “the housewife’s MP”
Katharine Ramsay Stewart-Murray
of Atholl 1874-1960 First woman
MP for Scottish constituency,
government spokesman; fought
female circumcision in Africa
711.
712.
713.
714.
715.
704.
Marianne Dunlop Moncrieff 18741961 glass designer and
entrepreneur
716.
705.
Katharine Cameron Kay 1874-1965
artist-illustrator
Mary Garden 1874-1967 opera
singer
(Nora) Lilian Scott Alcock 18741972 mycologist, practical plant
and seed pathologist, advised
government and growers alike
Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn 18751899 campaigning Pacific princess
Fanny Mary Parker 1875-1924
militant suffragist organiser, often
imprisoned & force-fed
Isabel Kerr Gunn 1875-1932
medical missionary, pioneering
curative treatment of leprosy,
travelling far to reach some of her
2,800 patients
Ottillie McLaren Wallace 1875-1947
sculptor
Ann Macbeth 1875–1948
embroiderer bookbinder, ceramic
painter and author
Jessie Marion King 1875-1949
artist, illustrator, craft designer
Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul 1875-1953
studied and co-wrote “birds of
scotland”
Sylvia Winthrop Murray 1875-1955
Girton educated china missionary,
lawyer, suffrage activist
Lily Martha Maud McDougall 18751958 artist
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717.
718.
719.
720.
721.
722.
723.
724.
725.
Mary Rough Barbour 1875-1958
pioneer housing and labour
campaigner founded women’s
welfare clinic, councillor, baillie
and magistrate
Ethel Mary Steuart 1875-1960
classical scholar, headmistress,
early graduate of London
University, Girton foundationer
Mary Porteous Tweedie 1875-1961
french language expert and girls
headmistress
Nannie Katharin Smith Wells 18751963 nationalist & antifascist
writer
Agnes Savill 1875-1964 worked
with Scottish Women’s Hospitals in
WW1
Anne Louise McIlroy c1875-1968
pioneer medical student,
obstetrician and gynaecologist,
worked with Scottish Women’s
Hospitals in WW1
726.
727.
728.
729.
730.
731.
732.
733.
Mary Janet Pirret 1876-1942 early
graduate medical officer of health
Cecilia Loftus Brown McCarthy
(Cissie Loftus)1876-1943 highly
talented mimic & music hall performer, serious actor, some film roles
734.
Helen Russel Archdale 1876-1949
suffrage activist, journalist, editor,
first chair of equal rights
international
735.
736.
Hilda Marley (Sister Marie Hilda)
1876-1951 educator, psychologist
in advance of her time, founder of
clinics, aware of effects of
emotional deprivation
Helen Paxton Brown 1876-1956
painter and embroiderer
Christine Jane Stark Fergusson
1876-1957 artist
Mary “May” Pollock Grant 18761957 missionary, suffragist,
volunteer in WW1, member of
women’s police service, healer
Mary Ethel Muir (M.E.M)
Donaldson 1876-1958 author &
photographer
Rachel Annand Taylor 1876–1960
poet, biographer and literary critic
Janet Spens 1876-1961 school
founder & tutor to women in arts
Teresa Mary Billington-Greig 18761964 suffragist, freelance speaker
and writer, advocate of full sexual
equality
Lila (Maggie) Clunas 1876-1968
teacher, suffragist, hunger striker,
member of Women's Freedom
League and ILP
Gertrude Williams 1877-1934
sculptor
Anna Buchan (O Douglas) 18771948 one of the best-selling
novelists of her time
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737.
738.
739.
740.
741.
742.
743.
744.
745.
746.
747.
Dorothy Kathleen Broster 18771950 historical novelist
Helen Jack Crawfurd Anderson
1877-1954 active suffragist and
communist, councillor
748.
749.
Minna Clara Puella Greig Hack
1877-1957 tutor
Kate Fraser 1877-1957- physician,
mental health pioneer
Laura Knight 1877-1970 artist
750.
751.
Kathleen Bruce Scott 1878-1947
sculptor, antarctic widow
Flora Gibson Drummond Simpson
1878-1949 talented political
organiser for women’s suffrage,
especially of marches processions
& pageants
Christina Kay 1878-1951 inspiring
teacher, model for Spark’s Jean
Brodie
Galbraith Cowan 1878–1951
internationally-minded social
worker and educational
administrator
Margaret Geddes 1878-1956 city
councillor, senior Baillie, president
of Scottish Womens Rural Institute
Margaret de Courcy Lewthwaite
Dewar 1878-1959 designer and
enameller
752.
753.
754.
755.
756.
757.
Catherine Blair 1878-1960 women’s
rights activist, founder SWRI,
pottery painter
Eunice Guthrie Murray 1878-1960
suffragist, historian, author, first
woman to stand in a parliamentary
election in Scotland
Flora MacLeod Walker 1878-1976
active in voluntary aid & welfare,
clan chief
Catherine Macfarlane Carswell
1879-1946 author, biographer and
journalist
Mairi Mackenzie Sawyer 1879-1953
gardener
Maggie Russell McIver 1879-1958
market and ballroom entrepreneur
Evelyn Vida Baxter 1879-1959
studied and co-wrote “birds of
scotland”, first linked bird
migrations to weather patterns
Rachel Blackley Devine 1879-1960
weaver & trade union leader
Helen Graham Shaw 1879-1964
politician active in social and
educational bodies
Helen Fraser Gwynn-Vaughan 18791967 scientist, overseas controller
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps,
Commandant Womens Royal Air
Force, president British
Mycological Society
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758.
759.
760.
761.
762.
763.
764.
765.
766.
Mary Macarthur Anderson 1880–
1921 trade unionist, journalist,
women's rights campaigner, Scottish President of Shop Assistants’
Union, General Secretary of the
Women’s Trade Union League,
President and Secretary of National
Federation of Women Workers
767.
768.
769.
Emilia Lorimer 1880-1955 poet
Marie Carmichael Stopes Roe 18801958 social reformer, author on
marriage and parenthood,
scientist, founder of birth control
clinics
Grata Flos Greig 1880-1958
pioneer female Australia law
graduate, first admitted to the bar
770.
771.
772.
Mary Elizabeth Phillips 1880-1969
feminist, suffragist
773.
Elizabeth Macdonald Bryson 18801969 pioneer in psychiatric aspects
of gynaecology, nutritional
broadcaster
774.
Jennie McCallum Richardson 18811946 linen worker, suffragist
Agnes Siddons Young Arnot 18811953 principal of slessor memorial
home, helped outcast women in
nigeria
Agnes Thomson Borrowman 18811955 intrepid pioneer pharmacist
who fought for rights of women in
the profession
775.
776.
777.
Anna Munro-Ashman 1881-1962
socialist, suffragist, campaigner for
women’s rights
Margaret Sackville 1881-1963
writer, poet, performer, lover of
Ramsay Macdonald
Mary Gavin Clarke 1881—1976
head of prestigious girls’ schools
Helen Fraser Moyes 1881-1979
illustrator, embroiderer,
committed suffragist
Helen Wilkie 1882-c1930 suffrage
activist, writer to newspapers,
orator
Norah Neilson Gray 1882-1931
painter, sketcher, teacher
Janet Laurel (Jennie) Adamson
1882-1962 Labour activist,
councillor, MP
Mary Gilmour Gordon 1882-1963
singer, much loved Hollywood
character actor, in more than 200
films
(Mary) “Molly” Adamson Hamilton
1882-1966 writer, broadcaster
and politician
Agnes Macdonald 1882-1966
suffrage & women’s citizenship
campaigner, against child sexual
abuse; quaker relief worker
Ysobel Stewart 1882-1968 head of
girl guide training
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778.
779.
780.
781.
782.
783.
784.
785.
786.
787.
Mary Helen Young 1883-1945
nurse and resistance worker, war
prisoner & victim
788.
Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe
1883-1945 “first woman to
dominate international golf
789.
Janet Munro Kemp Fraser 18831945 community leader, political
activist
790.
Clarice McNab Shaw 1883-1946
labour activist, councillor & MP
Ethel Adam Baxter 1883-1963
cook, businessman, director of
food production
Honoria Keer 1883-1969 WW1
surgeon for Scottish Women’s
Hospitals, tropical doctor, civil
defence worker in WW2
791.
792.
793.
Helen Thomson Moon 1883-1973
home mission social worker, prison
warder
794.
Edith Anne Stewart Robertson
1883–1973 poet, biographer,
dramatist
795.
Muriel Robertson 1883-1973
protozoologist and bacteriologist
Elizabeth Craig Mann 1883-1980
journalist, magazine editor,
cookery writer, loyal & generous
free spirit
796.
797.
798.
Lillias Tate Mitchell 1884-1940
militant suffrage campaigner and
bomber, later journalist and YWCA
organiser
Wilhelmina Lamond Abbot 18841957 suffragist, egalitarian
feminist
Maude Courtney Currie 1884-1959
variety entertainer
Jenny Patrick 1884-1971 anarchist
in Spanish civil war, companion of
Guy Aldred and returned to
group’s press
Georgina “Gina” Davidson
MacKinnon 1884-1973 long-term
chair of Drambuie liqueur
Christina Clapperton Young 18851928 clubmistress, “body on the
beach”
Winifred Moller Beilby Soddy 18851936, researcher in atomic
structure and radioactivity
Nan (Agnes) Hardie Hughes 18851947 campaigner, local politician
Margaret Hardie Hasluck 18851948 ethnographer, adviser to
special operations
Eleanor Allen Moore Robertson
1885-1955 artist in Scotland &
china
Elizabeth B Mitchell 1885-1964
campaigner for town planning
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799.
800.
Jean Aylwin 1885-1964 singer,
actor, entertainer
Mabel Jeffrey Inglis Clark 18851967 with her mother Janey
promoted independent climbing
for women
809.
810.
811.
801.
802.
803.
804.
805.
806.
807.
808.
Florence Marian McNeill 1885-1973
folklorist, writer, social & political
activist, lexicographer, journalist,
compiler of the scots kitchen
Lettie Fairfield 1885-1978 studied
medicine & law, young socialist &
suffragist, medical administrator,
supervised women doctors in
WW1
Muriel Ritson 1885-1980 career
administrator and civil servant,
expert in public health, social work,
health, pensions and national
insurance
Winifred Bartholomew Rushforth
1885-1983 jungian psychoanalyst
812.
813.
814.
815.
816.
Anna Mary Hotchkis 1885-1984
artist, asia traveller, writer
817.
Nora Low Hebditch (Lorna Moon)
1886-1930 author and
screenwriter
818.
Janet Whyte Chance 1886-1953 sex
educator & reformer, founder of
Abortion Law Reform Association
819.
Penelope Beaton 1886-1963
watercolourist
820.
Anne (Annie) Johnston 1886-1963
gaelic folklorist
Dot (Eliza MacNaughton) Allan
1886-1964 novelist, journalist &
short story writer
Agnes Reid Toward 1886-1975
shorthand typist, tenement
dweller now exemplary
Nell Burness Cruikshank 1886-1975
poet & civil servant
Helen Burness Cruickshank 18861975 poet and suffragist
Jean Callender Milligan 1886-1978
advocate of traditional country
dance, compiler & world traveller
to promote it
Annie Fraser Syme 1887-c1940
actor, suffragist, imprisoned in
Holloway
Jessie Wallace Jordan Baumgarten
1887-1954 hairdresser-spy,
imprisoned in WW2
Winifred Fairfield 1887-1960
young socialist suffragist, trained
as teacher
Isabel Emslie 1887-1960 worked
with Scottish Women’s Hospitals in
WW1
Agnes Moir Dollan 1887-1966
labour activist & suffragist
Nora Geddes Mears 1887-1967
landscape architect, poet
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821.
822.
823.
824.
825.
826.
827.
828.
Violet Asquith Bonham Carter
1887-1969 politician & diarist
832.
Katherine Stewart Macphail 18871974 doctor caring for children in
Yugoslavia
Charlotte Stevenson Watson
Beddows 1887-1976 golfer and
hockey player
Isabel Frances (Elsie) Grant 18871983 historian & folk museum
pioneer
833.
834.
Elliot Cranston Mason c1888-1947
actor and director
835.
Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser Hood 1888c1958 clarsach player, involved in
mother’s public performances and
field trips
836.
Edith Burnet Hughes 1888-1971
UK’s first non-male qualified
architect
Jane McArthur Anderson 18891914 fatal victim of childbirth
complications by local doctor’s use
of forceps, his suicide followed
837.
838.
839.
840.
829.
Sybil Smith Burnett 1889-1960
gardener of outstanding influence,
writer and poet
841.
830.
Mary Tweedie c1889-1963 studied
music under Tovey, music
examiner worldwide
842.
831.
Jean (Janet) Stewart Mann 18891964 town planning campaigner,
councillor, MP
Florence Horsbrugh 1889-1969
politician, first MP to be televised
in parliament, privy councillor,
concerned with children sent
abroad, helped draft national
health service, delegate to drafting
UN charter
Georgina White Ballantine 18891970 nurse, registrar, salmon
fisher, amputee
Dora Tertia Liebenthal 1889-1970
concert organiser
Isobel Wylie Hutchison 1889-1982
poet, traveller, photographer,
writer, botanist
Isabel Wylie Hutchison 1889-1982
writer, arctic traveller, botanist
Dorothy Carleton Smythe 18901933 costume designer
Willa Anderson Muir 1890-1970
novelist, essayist and translator
Margaret Scott Patterson 18901971 artist
Helen Lillie 1890-1977 worked
with Scottish Women’s Hospitals in
WW1
Rosabelle Sinclair 1890-1981
established women's lacrosse in
USA
Gertrude Marian Herzfeld 18901981 first woman surgeon in
scotland
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843.
844.
845.
846.
847.
848.
849.
850.
851.
852.
853.
Mary Newbery Sturrock 1890-1985
flower painter in watercolours
Ada Hitchins 1891-c1950 atomic
isotope and radioactivity
researcher
Agnes Mure Mackenzie 1891–1955
historian and writer active in the
saltire society
Cecile Walton 1891-1956 painter,
illustrator, sculptor, theatre
designer, organised radio
children’s hour
854.
855.
856.
857.
Alice McLoughlin Bartlett Cullen
Reynolds 1891-1969 labour
councillor, JP and MP
Margaret Morris 1891-1980
dancer, choreographer and teacher
Mary Esslemont 1891-1984 pioneer
woman GP, committed to women’s
rights, active in UN international
women’s year
Lydia Henry 1891-1985 worked
with Scottish Women’s Hospitals in
WW1
Selma Mann 1891-1989 zionist
activist
858.
859.
860.
861.
862.
Frances “Fanny” Abbott 1892-1971
sewing machine factory worker,
women’s political organiser
Dorothy Emily Stevenson Peploe
1892–1973 prolific light romantic
novelist
863.
Sheila Stuart (Gladys May Baker,
Mary Gladys Steel Baker) 18921974 journalist, popular children’s
author
Dorothy Johnstone Sutherland
1892-1980 artist and art educator
Wendy Wood (Gwendoline Emily
Meacham) 1892-1981 artist,
writer, patriot & controversialist
Cecily Fairfield Andrews (Rebecca
West) 1892-1983 actor, socialist
and feminist forthright journalist,
novelist, essayist, critic, traveller,
political commentator,
campaigner, lover of H.G.Wells
Margaret Myles 1892-1988
midwife and educator
Helen Cordiner Ritchie 1893-1964
herring gutter
Jessie Stephen 1893-1979
domestic servant, suffragist &
trade unionist
Anna (Nan) Shepherd 1893-1981
early modernist, novelist and poet
Madge Elder 1893-1985 deaf
gardener, nurseryman and writer,
a link between the suffrage
movement and pioneer students
like her of the country’s new
School of Gardening for Women
Freda White 1894-1971 author,
journalist, travel writer, relief
worker, internationalist
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864.
865.
866.
867.
868.
869.
870.
871.
872.
Phyllis Mary Bone 1894-1972
sculptor, illustrator
873.
Margaret Mary Leigh 1894-1973
author and farmer
Victoria Drummond 1894-1978
marine engineer
874.
Charlotte Ann Douglas 1894-1979
Medical Officer for maternity &
child welfare , laid foundations for
better policy & provision
875.
Dorothée Pullinger Martin 18941986 aero and automobile design
engineer and entrepreneur,
started women’s engineering
apprenticeships, built Galloway
cars with all-female workforce and
badge in suffrage colours,
managed 13 factories in WW2
Ethel Brechin 1894-1986 hardworking early non-male printing
compositor
Anne Redpath Michie 1895-1967
artist
Elizabeth Glendinning Kirkwood
Hewat 1895-1968 progressive and
inclusive missionary, historian,
advocate of women’s equality in
the church: “it is not Christ who is
barring the way”
Jessie Jordan 1895-1955
imprisoned wartime spy
876.
877.
878.
879.
880.
881.
882.
883.
Mary Elizabeth Sutherland 18951972 graduate qualified teacher,
trade unionist, landworkers’
supporter, internationalist and
labour party organiser for scotland
Isobel McColl Forrester 1895-1976
ecumenical pioneer, supporter of
women’s ordination
Agnes Miller Parker McCance 18951980 illustrator and engraver
Jean (Jane) Gilmour Govan 18951982 founder of trained nurses
association, maternity home,
pioneer air ambulance nurse
Isobel Baillie 1895-1983 soprano
Jean Weir Roberts 1895-1988 city
councillor, first woman lord
provost in scotland
Elizabeth Mackintosh 1896-1952
author (as Josephine Tey),
playwright (as Gordon Daviot)
Andrina Gregory 1896-1966
pioneer nurse trained at new
domestic science college, private
nurse of Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary McMackin McAlister 18961976 fever nurse, councillor, MP
Sheina Marshall 1896-1977 marine
biologist
Alison Hope Cargill Greenlees 18961979 pioneer of girl guiding
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884.
885.
886.
887.
888.
889.
890.
891.
892.
893.
894.
Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm
1896-1981 ambulance driver,
WW1 frontline firstaider,
photographer
Esther Murray Liston 1896-1989
fishwife
Jane Mathison Haining 1897-1944
missionary, carer for children,
auschwitz victim
Helen MacFarlane Duncan 18971956 materialising medium,
imprisoned for witchcraft
Marjorie Flack 1897-1958 writer
and illustrator of children’s picture
books
Peggy Morrison (March Cost) 18971973 actor, novelist & short story
writer
Annie Cameron Dunlop 1897-1973
historian
Kate Campbell MacDonald 18971977 leading exponent of gaelic
song & music
Mary Soutar Brooksbank 1897-1978
mill worker, revolutionary,
prisoner, poet and songwriter
Kathleen Garscadden 1897-1991
radio & television broadcaster &
producer, a familiar voice of 40
years of airwaves
Mary Ninian Manson 1897-1994
crofter, knitter, storyteller
895.
896.
897.
898.
899.
900.
901.
902.
903.
904.
Helen Millar Lowe 1897-1997
accountant, millionaire,
campaigned unsuccessfully to save
women’s hospital from closure
Naomi Haldane Mitchison 18971999 novelist, poet, campaigner
for women’s rights and birth
control
Helen “Ella” Gregory 1898-1946
radiant & magnetic medical
missionary of great skill
Nellie Ballantine Graham 18981959 touring player, stage radio
and film actor
Marjorie Ada Chaplyn 1898-1960,
French literature expert, teacher,
headmistress
Anne Finlay 1898-1963 artist
Dorothy Robertson Renton 18981966 plantsman, internationally
known for skill in raising rare sinohimalayan plants from seed
Jessie Macmillan Findlay 1898-1989
teacher at the socialist-sundayschool, labour & co-operative
activist
Evelyn Barbara “Eve” Balfour 18981990 strong-willed inspirer of Soil
Association, tireless campaigner
and experimenter
Doris Clare Zinkeisen Johnstone
1898-1991 realist painter,
portraitist, stage and graphic
designer and war artist
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905.
Margaret Marshall c1898-1995
principal matron for emergency
medical services in war
915.
916.
906.
907.
908.
909.
910.
911.
912.
913.
914.
Mary Gillon Armistead 1898-2002
WW1 tram-conductor (“clippie”),
centenarian
Ethel Dobbie Currie 1899-1963
modest & unfailingly helpful
palaeontologist
917.
918.
Mary Viola Paterson 1899-1981
artist
Dorothy Buchanan Fleming 18991985 first non-male corporate civil
engineer, notable bridge &
waterworks experience
Doris Reynolds Holmes 1899-1985
controversial petrologist, work
highlighted role of fluids in earth’s
crust, first non-male fellow of royal
society of edinburgh
Charlotte 'Lotte' Auerbach 18991994 zoologist and geneticist,
helped to found the science of
mutagenesis
Chrissie Miller 1899-2001 selfeffacing yet outstanding research
chemist of great resourcefulness
919.
920.
921.
922.
923.
Margaret Sinclair (Sister Mary)
1900-1925 comforter of the poor
Margaret Dryburgh c1900-1945
missionary, sustainer of prisoncamp morale
924.
Ellen Dawson Kanki 1900-1967
power-loom weaver, trade unionist
Isobel H K Beattie 1900-1970
architect
Flora Campbell Garry 1900-2000
poet in English, scots & doric,
broadcaster
Susanne “Nan” Paterson 1900-1980
obstetrician, gynaecologist,
honorary in women’s hospital,
model for Elizabeth Jolley’s
“Palomino”
May Webster Brown 1900-1983
keep-fit campaigner, promoter of
women’s sports and physical
recreation
Margaret Kidd Macdonald 19001989 pioneer lawyer, “father of
the Scottish bar”
Bessie Watson Somerville 19001992 child piper & suffragist, violin
teacher
Dorothy Nairn Marshall 1900-1992
prominent amateur archaeologist
and museum curator
Agnes Duncan Nisbet 1900-1997
singer, principal solo contralto of
glasgow orpheus choir, choir
leader, founded Scottish junior
singers
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Windsor
1900–2002 royal duchess, queen
consort, queen mother, empress of
india
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925.
926.
927.
928.
929.
930.
931.
932.
933.
934.
935.
Alison Bonfield, c1900- first
secretary Saltire society
936.
Marjorie Lillian Dence 1901-1966
actor & theatre manager
937.
May Logan (Mary Allan Short) 19011969 music hall entertainer
938.
Isobel Skelton Dunlop 1901-1975
composer, music teacher, concert
organiser
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen Heseltine
1901-1976 realist painter,
portraitist, graphic artist, war,
medical & surgical drawings
939.
940.
Helen Monro Turner 1901-1977 led
a renaissance in glass engraving
Lucy Stewart 1901-1982 private
singer, recordings of world interest
to folklorists
Elma (Wilhelmina) Campbell Gibson
1901-1983 teacher, debater &
national party candidate
Isabella Gordon 1901–1988 trailblazing marine biologist
Alice Montague Scott 1901-2004
nurse, consort, director womens
auxiliary air force
Janet Gordon Roberts 1901-2012
lawyer, pivotal person in grant
whisky dynasty, scotland’s oldest
inhabitant: motto “hard work and
moderation”
941.
942.
943.
944.
945.
946.
Catherine Park Snodgrass 19021974 lecturer, geographer,
political commentator
Margaret Marie Dare 1902-1976
cellist, composer, teacher
Marion Cameron Gray 1902–1979
mathematician
Renee Houston Stewart (Catherine
Gribbin) 1902-1980 outstanding
comedian and actor
Nan Eachainn Fhionnlaigh
(MacKinnon) 1902-1982 traditionbearer, adding 600 native songs,
1000 proverbs and more, all
recorded into the nation’s
archives.
Margaret Hunter Thomson 19021982 doctor, war hero
Marion Cleland Lochhead 19021985 writer, poet, journalist,
social historian
Jenny Brown Gilbertson 1902-1990
film maker and teacher
Mary Armour 1902-2000 painter
(Lillian) Mary Pickford 1902-2002
neuro endocrinologist, her
research and teaching had far
reaching implications for women’s
health; died on her hundredth
birthday
Mary Mitchell McMurtrie 19022003 artist, plantsman, historian
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947.
948.
949.
950.
951.
952.
953.
954.
955.
956.
Rona Johnstone 1902-2003
successful dance teacher
Ruby Isabel Grierson 1903-1940
passionate documentary filmmaker
of life & spirit of ordinary people,
first filmed animals from their own
perspective, died in action when
children’s evacuation ship she was
filming was torpedoed
Janet “Jenny” Armstrong 19031985 hill shepherd, her life
recorded by artist neighbour
Agnes Brysson Morrison 1903-1986
novelist and biographer
Marion Amelia Spence Ross 19031994 physicist, expert in
acoustics, crystal structure and
fluid dynamics
Katharine Elliot 1903 – 1994
politician, prison reformer, united
nations delegate, agricultural
business manager
Rose Klasko Kerrigan 1903-1995
active communist
Margaret Fay Shaw Campbell 19032004 writer, photographer and
recorder of Hebridean life
957.
958.
959.
960.
961.
962.
963.
964.
965.
966.
Margaret Fay Shaw 1903-2004
folklorist and photographer
967.
Margaret “Margot” Gregory 19041952 artist, girl guide leader,
drove trucks in post-WW2
reconstruction of Germany
968.
Vera Findlay Kenmure 1904-1973
minister and first woman ordained
to pastoral charge in mainstream
Scottish denomination
Marjorie Shaw 1904-1984 linguist,
teacher, Times correspondent in
Russia in WW2
Jennie Lee Bevan 1904-1988
socialist, politician, writer, lecturer
Coline MacDougall 1904-1990 first
non-male chief of her clan, jade
collector
Madeleine Christie Walker 19041996 actor & singer
Una May Cameron 1904-1997
mountaineer worldwide
Margaret Gardiner 1904-2005 art
centre founder, against war, for
penal reform
Janet “Jenny” Waddell 1905-1984
theatre director, costume designer
Sarah Rose (Sadia) Aitken 19051985 theatre activist, manager and
producer
Norah Hope Chambers 1905-1989
sustainer of prison-camp morale
Janet Grierson Tessier du Cros
1905-1990 concert pianist, writer
and broadcaster
Grace Clark Murray 1905-1995
entertainer & comedian
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969.
Elizabeth Brown Barr 1905-1995
first non-male free church minister
& moderator
980.
981.
970.
Mary Kerr King 1905-1998
bondager & domestic servant
982.
971.
972.
973.
974.
975.
976.
977.
978.
979.
Peggy Boyd 1905-1999 midwife,
founder of trained nurses’
association, maternity home, a first
air ambulance nurse
Janet Adam Smith 1905-1999
writer, editor, literary journalist,
mountaineer, champion of Scottish
literature
Eugenie Fraser (Yevgheniya
Ghermanovna Scholts) 1905-2002
writer
Doris Bell Droy c1905-c2005
dancer, comedian in pantomime
and revue
Billie Houston (Sarah Gribbin) 19061972 part of variety duo with sister
Renee
Mary “Mollie” Urquhart
Mackintosh 1906-1977 actor and
theatre director
983.
984.
985.
986.
987.
988.
989.
Joan Hassall 1906-1988 wood
engraver and illustrator
Valda Trevlyn Grieve 1906-1989
poet, companion of Hugh
McDiarmid
Euphemia MacDonald Davison
(May Moxon) 1906-1996 dancer &
supplier of dance troupes
990.
991.
Annie Murray Knight 1906-1996
nurse in Spanish civil war
Belle Macgregor Stewart 1906-1997
traditional singer and songwriter
Mary Margaret Grieve (“Mary
Lyon”) 1906-1998 journalist,
editor of Woman magazine
Mary Rachel “Molly” Harrower
1906–1999 pioneering clinical
psychologist
Barbara Renton Quayle 1906-1999
became scotland’s youngest
matron, major hospital superintendant, life commited to service
Janet Hendry 1906-2004
scotland’s first woman pilot
Helen Gray Holm 1907-1971 golf
champion
Roberta “Bertha” Waddell 19071980 theatre writer, actor, director
Helen Clark MacInnes Highet 19071985 author
Margaret (Peggy) Herbison 19071996 Christian socialist, MP,
minister of pensions, privy
councillor, lord high commissioner
Margaret Brash Brodie 1907-1997
architect and leading creative force
Marion Grierson Taylor 1907-1998
documentary film maker, editor of
world film news, social worker
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992.
993.
994.
995.
996.
Jeannie Stewart Robertson 19081975 traditional singer
Jean Mackie Allan 1908-1991
progressive inspiring practical and
cultural teacher
Gabrielle Ritchie Keiller 1908-1995
golf champion, dada & surrealist
art collector
Eilidh “Helen” MacAskill Watt 19081996 gaelic writer & broadcaster
with interest in supernatural
Mary Docherty 1908-2000
communist activist & writer
Helena Gloag 1909-1973 actor,
my ain folk
1003.
1004.
Olive Fraser 1909-1977 poet
Lennox Milne McLaren 19091980 leading actor, founded
Gateway theatre
1005.
Elizabeth Strachan Dempster
1909-1987 sculptor, often
working in situ
1006.
Marion Crawford "Crawfie"
Buthlay 1909-1988 royal
governess and journalist
1007.
Elizabeth Dodd (Lavinia Derwent)
1909-1989 writer & broadcaster
1008.
997.
998.
999.
Kathleen Mann Crawford 19082000 precocious costume
designer, artist, illustrator
Frances Clements Milligan 19082000 fishwife
Margaret MacLean MacPherson
1908-2001 crofter, author,
political activist
Kathleen Raine Davies Madge
1908-2003 poet, editor, William
Blake scholar
1000.
Helen Douglas Adam 1909–1993
poet, collagist and photographer
1009.
Muriel Clara Bradbrook 1909–
1993 literary scholar, Shakespeare
authority
1010.
Ellen King MacPherson Pearson
1909-1994 swimming champion &
record holder, perhaps best allround swimmer of her era
1011.
Helen Kathleen “Kath” Whyte
1909-1996 embroiderer and
educator
1012.
Helen Biggar Montlake 19091953 sculptor, film-maker, theatre
and costume designer
1001.
Marjorie MacIntyre Linklater
1909-1997 actor and campaigner
for arts, heritage and environment
1013.
(Camelia) Ethel MacDonald
1909-1960 anarchist, broadcaster,
republican escape organiser in
Spanish civil war
1002.
Norah Shargool Montgomerie
1909-1998 folklorist and artist
1014.
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Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham
Anderson 1909–2002 medieval
research historian & paleographer
1015.
Mary Syme Boyd 1910-1997
sculptor
1024.
Jean MacDougall Hadfield 19101999 expert on natural dyes,
family letters researcher
1025.
Margaret Hart Swain 1909-2002
historian of Scottish embroideries,
tapestry and furniture
1016.
Mary Sutherland Maxwell
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum
1910–2000 consort and secretary
of head of bahá'í faith
1026.
Natalie Wales Douglas-Hamilton
1909-2013 founded WW2
Bundles for Britain, Highland Fund
for social development, New York’s
Scotland House, American-Scottish
Foundation, American Scottish Ball,
Scotland Week & Tartan Day
1017.
Sheila Scott Macintyre 1910-1960
mathematician, teacher & lecturer
1018.
Elizabeth Jane Cameron (Jane
Duncan, Janet Sandison) 19101976 writer
1019.
Ursula Katherine Duncan 19101985 distinguished botanist with
years of single handed work,
managed estate & farmland in
support of studies
1020.
Mary McKenzie Campbell Miner
1910-1991 restaurant worker,
emigrant , hard life: “never a bad
that can’t be worse”
1021.
Audrey Glover Walker 1910-1996
photographer
Mary “Molly” Weir 1910-2004
actor & writer
1027.
Marion Jenkins Henery 19102001 active communist, hunger
marcher
1028.
Mary Jessie Noble 1911-2002
plant pathologist, mycologist
1029.
Katie Horsman 1911-1998
potter, draughtsman, illustrator
and watercolour painter
1030.
Phyllis Wade Wylie 1911-2012
championship golfer
1031.
Jean Stewart 1911- pianist,
accordionist, dance band leader,
broadcaster
1032.
Margot Bennett 1912–1980
writer of crime and thriller novels
1033.
1022.
Anne Strachan Robertson 19101997 archaeologist, numismatist,
museum curator
1023.
Kathleen Constance Blanche
Balfour “Kay” Oldfield 1912-1996
organic growing campaigner with
sister Eve
1034.
Mabel Parrot Skinner 1912-1996
communist activist
1035.
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Flora McBain Sadler 1912-2000
mathematician and astronomer
1036.
Wilhelmina “Willie” BarnsGraham 1912-2004 abstract
painter
Joan Bridge Baez 1913-2013
quaker anti-war & civil rights
activist, mother of JB junior
1047.
1037.
Ena Lamont Stewart 1912-2006
playwright.
1038.
Ann Shearer Scott-Moncrieff
1914-1943 author
1048.
1049.
Ruth Munro 1914-1974 actor
Sylvia Daiches Raphael 1914-1996
linguist, translator, French
literature scholar
1050.
Angela Culme-Seymour Rauf
1912-2012 beauty, spiritual
retreat followed racy life
1039.
(Mary) “Molly” Isolen Fergusson
1914-1997 civil engineer, first
woman as senior partner in a UK
engineering consultancy and to be
awarded ICE fellowship
1051.
Mary O’Rourke Lethbridge 19131964 recorded boy-soprano under
various aliases, variety singer
1040.
Ella Logan (Georgina Allan) 19131969 entertainer, singer
1041.
Betty Harvie Anderson (Margaret
Skrimshire) 1913-1979 politician,
anti-aircraft commander,
respected MP, reformer of local
government
1042.
Janet Kirkwood Caird 1913-1992
poet, novelist & critic
1043.
Winifred Drinkwater Short
Orchard 1913-1996 airline pilot &
aircraft engineer
1044.
Annie “Nan” Sutherland 19131998 co-op women’s guild leader
Kitty MacLeod MacLennan
Gregson 1914-2000 singer,
teacher, expert in traditons of
gaelic song
1052.
Kathleen Scott Burgess 19142012 physician at Royal Edinburgh
Hospital for Mental Disorders then
in general practice
1053.
Elizabeth “Betty” Walls 19142013 led overseas work of church
of scotland
1054.
1055.
Jane Bennie Fyfe 1914- artist
1045.
(Margaret) Hope MacDougall
1913-1998 social historian and
collector
1046.
Priscilla Thomson Buchan 19151978 politician and world
statesman
1056.
Mary Casey Hutchison 1915-1994
upholsterer, head of co-op
women’s guild
1057.
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Elizabeth Cameron 1915-2008
botanical artist & food
entrepreneur
1058.
Louise Annand MacFarquhar
1915-2012 artist, teacher, leader
of schools museum service, Royal
Fine Art Commissioner
1059.
Katherine Lindsay MacDougall
1915-2013 scholar, custodian of
manuscripts at national maritime
museum, collater of Nelson papers,
teacher in africa & uk, local
historian in argyll
Perpetua “Pip” Pope 1916-2013
painter and teacher in oil and
watercolour
1067.
Effie Morrison 1917-1974
secretary, broadcaster, actor
1068.
Mary Sandeman 1917-1995
antiquarian, archaeologist
1069.
1060.
Kay (Kathleen) Mander 19152013 radical social documentary
film maker, pioneer of drama
documentary, loved work in
mainstream media, continuity
adviser on well known films and
television
Edith Simon Reeve 1917-2003
artist and writer, devised paper &
scalpel technique
1070.
Anna MacGillivray MaLeod 19172004 professor of brewing
1071.
1061.
Evelyn Morren 1915- pottery
decorator
1062.
Jessie Grant McDonald Kesson
1916-1994 novelist, playwright
and radio producer
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 spiritual
leader
1072.
Barbara Maine Burnett-Stuart
1917-2012 journalist and publisher
1073.
Thora Bain 1917-2012 dairyman
and spellbinding storyteller with
passion for history, science and
community
1074.
1063.
(Marianne) Maidie Bridge Hart
1916-1997 quiet and influential
activist at home & internationally,
determined that women take their
full place in church and society
1064.
Mora Scott Craig 1917-2012
long-serving GP who drew
attention to child sexual abuse in
1978, charity worker
1075.
Elizabeth Thomson Carswell Clark
(“Joan Ure”) 1918–1978 poet and
playwright
1076.
Ella Williamson 1916-2000 co-op
women’s guild leader
1077.
Catriona Margaret Lowe (Peggy)
McClements 1916-2012 pioneer
gaelic student, teacher and
transcriber
1078.
1065.
1066.
Isobel Marshall Barnett 19181980 doctor, television
personality
Agnes McLean 1918-1994 trade
unionist, councillor, dancer
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Laura Bonham Carter Grimond
1918-1994 councillor & liberal
party activist
1079.
Edith Ruddick Brill 1918-1996
theatre, television, film and radio
actor
1080.
Fiona Bryde Colquhoun Gore
1918-2013 power boat speed
champion
1089.
Betsy Townsley Whyte 1919-1988
storyteller
1090.
Margaret Mands Fenwick 19191992 weaver, trade unionist,
campaigner for equal pay
1091.
Diana Bates 1918-1998 doctor
and psychotherapist
1081.
Margaret Tait Pirie 1918-1999
film maker
1082.
Allie Edmunds Munro 1918-2002
teacher, author and folk music
scholar
1083.
Muriel Camberg Spark 1918-2006
poet, writer
1084.
Eileen Herlie (Eileen Isobel
Herlihy) 1918-2008 actor
Elspeth Dryer Davie 1919-1995
novelist & short story writer
1092.
Marion Campbell of Kilberry
1919-2000 farmer, landowner,
writer, archaeologist and councillor
1093.
Annie Therese Altschul 19192001 psychiatric nurse, teacher,
mental welfare expert and activist
1094.
1085.
Dorothie Hewlett 1918-2011
aeronautic draughtsman, artist, art
collector
Rosalind Mary Wrong Mitchison
1919–2002 social historian
1095.
1086.
Agnes Rodger Davison 1918-2012
aircraft construction worker in
WW2, supporter of Polish forces,
shopkeeper
Maidie Dickson Murray 19192010 singer, comedian, (& with
partner Chic)
1096.
1087.
Mary Brown MacIver 1919-2012
teacher, artist
1097.
Mary “Maisie” Mallinson Shaw
1919-2012 poet, artist, teacher,
affectionate protégé of her own
teacher Miss Kay (the model for
Jean Brodie)
1098.
Louise Morley Cochrane 19182012 worked for to Eleanor
Roosevelt, adviser on Fulbright
scholar selection, writer of longrunning children’s television series,
teacher, writer, episcopal church
stalwart
1088.
Sheila Stewart Murray 1919-2012
WW2 secretary, witness to Hess
arrival, WRNS
1099.
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Isobel Gordon 1919-2012
disciplined art teacher who
influenced national policy
1100.
Nancy Kirkland Conn 1919-2013
public health bacteriologist, traced
origin of 1970 typhus outbreak
1101.
Justin Blanco-White c1920-c1980
architect-planner
1102.
Vera Speirs Laracy 1921-1995
women’s timber corps lumberjack
in WW2
1112.
Evelyn Cowan Cohen 1921-1998
energetic forthright writer, active
in jewish charities
1113.
1114.
Deborah Kerr 1921-2007 actor
Betty Jessiman MacKay 19212012 ATS & army service,
champion highland dancer &
teacher, fought to allow women
into the all-male world of highland
dancing
1115.
Olga Mounsey Stewart 19201998 botanist and botanical artist
1103.
Olive Anthony Checkland 19202004 pioneering social historian
1104.
Elizabeth Baikie Angus 1920-2012
farmer, independent town, district
& regional councillor, JP, chair of
Thurso Heritage.
1105.
Eileen Knowles Fuchs 1920-2013
violinist, “the mother of Scottish
skiing”
1106.
Nancy Donald Wykes 1921-2013
veterinary surgeon
1116.
Elizabeth Spence Miller 19212013 long-term islands newspaper
owner
1117.
Stella Jane Reekie 1922-1982
missionary and interfaith worker
1118.
Mary Firth 1920-2013 pianist,
educator, prolific writer on music
& its appreciation
1119.
Agnes Kindberg 1920embroiderer, fashion designer and
teacher of design
1120.
1107.
Isabella Mitchell Keyzer 19221992 weaver and shipyard
welder, articulate socialist feminist
1108.
Dorothy Maclean 1920
intelligence operator, hotel
manager and community founder
1109.
1110.
Joan Eardley 1921-1963 artist
(Katherine) Joan Dickson 19211994 cellist & music teacher
1111.
Annie Williamson Hastie 19222002 bakers wife & shopkeeper,
reliable & generous social activist
& pillar of the community
Ruby Turberville 1922-2003
features writer & women’s editor,
enthusiastic champion of women’s
issues
1121.
Antonella (Tony) Kerr 1922-2007
journalist and broadcaster
1122.
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Margot Glasgow Sandeman 19222009 artist
1123.
Betty Miller Unterberger 1922–
2012 historian, teacher of
international relations
1124.
Yvonne Angus Morison 19222012 long-serving community
volunteer
1125.
Mollie Hunter McIlwraith 19222012, writer
1126.
Maureen Mollie Hunter
McIlwraith (Mollie Hunter) 1922–
2012 writer mainly inspired by
history & folklore
Ailsa Robertson Tanner 19232001 artist, curator, researcher
1136.
Dorothy Halliday Dunnett 19232001 painter, sculptor, historical
novelist
1137.
Bertha Wernham Wilson 19232007 puisne justice of the supreme
court in Canada
1138.
Cordelia Patrick Oliver 1923-2009
soloist, artist, journalist,
commentator on Scottish culture
1139.
1127.
Janet Brown 1923-2011 actor,
comedian
1140.
Janet Forrest Henderson 19232012 family doctor, effective
medical service organiser, trainer
of GPs
1141.
Elizabeth Montagu Scott Percy
1922-2012 WRNS cipher clerk,
duchess, estate manager
1128.
Doris Forsyth Davidson 19222012 teacher, romantic novelist
1129.
Moira Munro Beaty 1922- artist,
cryptographer
1130.
1131.
Joan Faithfull 1922- potter
1132.
Jean Waddell 1922- Iran hostage
Margaret Street 1923- cultural
activist and commemorator
1142.
Janet Theodora Lusk 1924-1994
social worker, helped launch first
childcare course
1143.
Margaret Blackwood McGrath
1924-1994 campaigner for
national disability income
1144.
Janet Vida Watson Sutton 19231985 geologist and palaeontologist
1145.
Athole Cameron 1923–1992
teacher, writer, storyteller
1146.
1133.
1134.
Jemima Bessie Skea Grieve 19231996 journalist-columnist, poet,
short story writer, recording
childhood and country life
1135.
(Mary) Joan Knight 1924-1996
theatre director
Anne Macaulay 1924-1998
musicologist, archaeologist,
author, lecturer in ancient ways
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(Constance) Judith Ridehalgh Hart
1924-1999 lifelong socialist, MP,
Minister for International
Development, active across a range
of issues from human rights and
corporal punishment to poverty
and war
1147.
Annie (Andy) Neil 1924-2004
rally champion, pig farmer
1148.
1157.
Jackie Mackenzie Foster 19261998 journalist & pioneer lesbian
rights campaigner
1158.
Moira Shearer 1926-2006
dancer, actor, author
1159.
Margaret Barron 1926-2012
farmer who helped transform her
steading to a living museum
1160.
Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser)
1924- novelist
1161.
Elizabeth Harvey Odling 19252004 artist
1162.
1149.
1150.
Catherine Una Maclean
Mackintosh Crick 1925-2012
doctor in Aden & Ibadan, teacher
in community medicine, writer,
advocate of Scottish parliament
1151.
Marion Mathie Humphry 19252012 actor on stage, films and
television
1152.
Mamie Baird Magnusson 19252012 pioneer of post war women’s
journalism, author
1153.
Ann Murray Scott Moncreiff
1925-2013 WW2 codebreaker, art
historian & expert
1154.
Quita (isabella) Barber 1925-2013
anaesthetist, prizewinning &
Olympic athlete
1155.
Georgina Grant MacAllister 19252013 historian, campaigner and
writer
Florence Jamieson 1925- artist
Eileen Clark 1926-2012 scripture
union organiser
Janey Kent Buchan 1926-2012
arts, civil, labour & gay rights
activist, started people’s festival;
councillor and MEP
Galina Vishnevskaya
Rostropovich 1926-2012 soprano
performed at height of her powers
in 1961, 68 75, 76 festivals
1163.
Ann Douglas Watters 1926-2013
teacher & science adviser,
environment centre founder,
councillor, civic society chair
1164.
Mary McLean Barlee 1926-2013
GP, fevers and obstetric registrar,
public health practitioner,
president of the riding for the
disabled association
1165.
Ena Baxter 1926- artist, food
entrepreneur
1166.
1156.
1167.
Agnes Owens 1926- author
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Helen Elliot Hamilton 1927-2013
table-tennis champion
1168.
1180.
Thea Musgrave 1928- composer
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Higgins Youlden
1929-1993 traditional ballad-singer
1181.
Nancy Riach 1927-1947
champion swimmer, held 28
records by time she was 17, “finest
swimmer and ambassador of sport
the british empire ever produced”
1169.
Rhoda Johnson Bulter 1929–1994
author, poet, broadcaster
1182.
Christian Mary McEwen Hesketh
1929-2006 author, historian,
public servant & hostess
1183.
Christina “Chrissie” Neil 19271991 rally champion, fashion
designer
1184.
Margaret Brodie Gardiner 19271913 righteous tea-room caterer
and emigrant
1185.
1170.
1171.
Jocelyn Hay 1927-2014 advocate
of public service broadcasting and
its accountability to citizens
1172.
Mary Theresa Coolican Kelly
1927- writer of crime novels
1173.
1174.
Catherine Bain 1927-
1175.
Jean Muir 1928-1995, dressmaker
Reay Tannahill (aka Annabel
Laine) 1929–2007 historian, nonfiction writer, and novelist
May Nicol 1929-2012 head
teacher
1186.
Gillian Tetley Thomson 19292013 teacher, dyslexia campaigner
1187.
Winifred Ewing 1929- lawyer
and prominent nationalist
politician
1188.
Ada F Kay 1929- writer,
playwright
Jennifer Paterson 1928-1999
cook, writer, actor, broadcaster
1189.
Jean Thow 1928-2002
headmistress
1190.
1176.
1177.
Cherry Drummond Strange 19282005 colourful poet, romantic
novelist, campaigner for war
widows
1178.
Myrtle Crawford Acland 19282013 leading fashion & advertising
model
1179.
Elspet Gray Rix 1929-2013 actor
Elizabeth Waugh 1929- sculptor
Marianne Richards Hesketh 19301984 actor and theatre manager
1191.
Margaret Rose Windsor of
Snowdon 1930-2002 princess,
socialite, patron of associations
and the arts
1192.
1193.
Kim Redpath 1930- artist
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Annie Ross (Annabelle Short)
1930- jazz singer & actor
1194.
Caroline M Valvona 1930potter, occupational therapist
1195.
Una McLean 1930- actor and
entertainer
1196.
1197.
Frances Walker 1930- artist
Paddie Bell 1931-2005 folk
singer and musician.*
1198.
Elizabeth Taylor 1931-2012
author and journalist
1199.
Ava June Cooper 1931-2013
operatic soprano
1200.
Alice Munro 1931- canadian
short story writer and nobel prize
winner
1201.
Elizabeth Blackadder 1931painter
1202.
Ruth White 1931- enameller
and resin caster
1209.
Joan Lingard 1932- novelist
1210.
Mary Ure Shaw 1933-1975 actor
Christina (Kirsty) Ross Larner
1933-1983 historian, considered
witch-hunting a sort of womenhunting: “a rearguard action
against the emergence of women
as independent adults”,
1211.
1212.
Patricia Leitch 1933- writer
Pat Gerber 1934–2006 writer
mainly known for children's books.
1213.
Tessa McAulay Fortune-Fraser
1934-2013 business philanthropist,
variety club chair
1214.
Katie Stewart 1934-2013
broadcaster & cookery writer
1215.
Maggie Smith 1934- stage, film
and television actor
1216.
1217.
Annette Crosbie 1934- actor
1203.
Moira Anne McGovern 19322012 speech & language therapist
& academic
Aileen Paterson 1934- children’s
writer and illustrator
1218.
1204.
Sheila Douglas 1932-2013 song
collector, singer, writer, folklorist
1205.
Delphine Davidson 1932-2014
embroiderer and toy designer
1206.
1207.
Phyllida Law 1932- actor
Emily Lyle 1932- oral historian
and song collector
1208.
Betty Connal Peebles 1935-1999
artist
1219.
Nancy Whiskey (Ann Wilson
Kelly) 1935-2003 singer
1220.
Nan (Annie) Cumming Burnett
1935-2012 teacher, children’s
panellist, councillor, chair of social
work, board member of SNH,
sustainable development adviser
1221.
1222.
Rosemary Gascoyne 1936- artist
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Marion McChesney Gibbons
1936- historical romance &
mystery writer
1223.
Pat Douthwaite 1939-2002
dancer, artist
1236.
Ethel Philip Jack 1939-2012
university & golf administrator,
golfer
1237.
Kirstin Linklater 1936 – voice
coach & professor of theatre arts
1224.
Angela Booth Dobbie 1937-2012
disability and access campaigner,
founded and led artlink
1225.
Margaret Horne Cruickshank
1939-2012 nurse, folksinger
1238.
Mairi Crawford Lindsay
Hedderwick 1939- illustrator and
writer
1239.
Dorothy Downie Dawson 19372012 equestrian teacher & writer
1226.
Dorothy Paul 1937- singer,
entertainer
1227.
Susan K Senior Smith 1937potter and weaver
1228.
Meg Beresford 1937campaigner against nuclear
weapons, Iona community
gardener, outdoor education
centre organiser & fundraiser
1229.
Mary Beith 1938-2012 investigative journalist & author, exposed
industrial use of dogs to test
cigarettes
1230.
1231.
Moira Anderson 1938- singer
Dolina MacLennan 1938 actor,
singer
1232.
1233.
Tessa Ransford 1938- poet
Sheila Mahala Andrews 19391997 vertebrate palaeontologist
1234.
1235.
Lilian Nelson 1939-1998
Morna Mulgray 1939- writer,
jointly with twin Helen
1240.
Jacqueline Field 1939- textile
designer and batik artist
1241.
Helen Mulgray 1939- writer,
jointly with twin Morna
1242.
Lillias Scott Chisholm Forbes
c1940-2014 poet
1243.
1244.
Lotte Glob 1940- potter
Fay Lenore Scott 1940- actor,
entertainer
1245.
Judy MacGregor Steel 1940theatre group founder, producer,
writer, arts festival director
1246.
Maggie Keswick Jencks 19411995 designer, writer, gardener,
philanthropist
1247.
Liz-Anne Campbell Winters 19412012 larger-than-life social work
and housing innovator
1248.
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Marilyn Gillies Carr 1941autobiographical writer, born
without arms or hands
1249.
Barbara Rae 1943- artist,
printmaker
1263.
Eileen Mackay 1943- career civil
servant
1264.
Jenni Daiches Calder 1941literary historian and arts organiser
1250.
Margo MacDonald 1943politician
1265.
Frances Mary Hendry 1941author mainly of historical fiction
for children & young adults
1251.
1252.
Hannah Gordon 1941- actor
Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943astronomer
1266.
Ruth Margaret Oppenheimer
Adler 1944-1994 human rights
and child welfare activist
1267.
1253.
Janet Adam 1941- potter
Morag Macleod Hood 1942-2002
actor, broadcaster
1254.
Shirley Gibb 1942-2012 teacher,
dancer, pacifist, political
campaigner
Leah Leneman 1944-1999
historian and cookery writer
1268.
1255.
Mary Marquis 1942broadcaster
1256.
Ann Souter Gloag 1942- ,
entrepreneur
1257.
1269.
Shena Mackay 1944- novelist
1270.
Vivien Heilbron 1944- actor
Sheena Wellington 1944traditional musician, singer at
Scottish Parliament re-opening
1271.
Alison Fell 1944- poet and
novelist
1272.
Dorothy Grace-Elder 1942journalist & politician
1258.
Anne Lorne Gillies 1944- , singer,
writer, broadcaster
1273.
Lesley Duncan Cox 1943–2010
singer-songwriter known for 1970s
work
1259.
1274.
Christine Grahame 1944politician
Elma Johnson 1943-2012
storyteller and cultural guide
1275.
Sue Nuttgens 1943- potter
1276.
1260.
1261.
Anne Lightwood, 1944- potter
Frances Cairncross 1944economist, journalist and academic
Sally Kuenssberg 1943- child
welfare advocate
1262.
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Wendy Ann de Rusett 1945-2012
storyteller who promoted
storytelling as a way of life,
founded TASC agency : traditional
arts for school & community
1277.
1278.
Mary Fleming 1945- harpist
1279.
Victoria Crowe 1945- artist
Norma Starszakowna 1945textile artist
1280.
Mairi Robinson 1945lexicographer
1281.
Freda Blackwood 1945designer, artist, sculptor, singer,
composer.
Anne Downie 1946- actress and
writer.
1291.
Catherine Paton Black 1946author
1292.
Margaret Bennett 1946- writer,
folklorist, ethnologist, broadcaster
and singer
1293.
Madeleine Lussi 1946- teacher in
drawing and painting, batik artist
1294.
Jenny Wormald 1946- historian
of late medieval and early modern
Scotland
1295.
1282.
Shirley Hoof Harrison 1946-2012
farmer of aberdeen angus &
voluntary trials of GM crops
1283.
Heather Ann Muir Cubie (1946virologist
1296.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson 1947–
1975 poet and critical theorist
1297.
Winnie Shaw Wooldridge 19471992 tennis player, grand slam
contestant
1298.
Elizabeth Connel 1946-2012
opera mezzo and soprano
1284.
1285.
Elizabeth Ogilvie 1946- artist
1286.
Leila Riddell 1946- embroiderer
Nina Myskow 1946- journalist
and broadcaster
1287.
Elspeth King 1946- cultural
historian, artist-curator
1288.
Hazel Josephine Aronson
Cosgrove 1946- judge
1289.
Mary Teresa Brick Goudie 1946equality campaigner, expenses
apologist
1290.
Jude Burkhauser 1947-1998
researched and organised
outstanding 1988 Glasgow Girls
exhibition which was barred from
touring North America & Japan by
male opposition
1299.
Joyce Cairns 1947- artist,
teacher
1300.
Sheena Booth Middleton
Blackhall 1947- writer of poetry,
novels, short stories, drama,
illustrator, traditional storyteller &
singer. promoting Scots culture,
Doric
1301.
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Liz Lochhead 1947- poet and
dramatist
1302.
1303.
Hazel Campbell 1947- artist
1304.
Barbara Dickson 1947 - , singer
Clarissa Dickson Wright 1947barrister, broadcaster, writer, cook
1305.
Diana O’Neill 1947- biodynamic
community gardener
1306.
Marilyn Elsie Imrie 1947- radio
drama director and producer.
Evelyn Hood 1948- journalist,
author
1316.
Ann Matheson 1948- librarian,
historian, academic administrator
1317.
Lynn Faulds-Wood 1948broadcaster and journalist
1318.
Margaret Elphinstone 1948novelist
1319.
1320.
Joy Hendry 1948- literary editor
1307.
Frances Pelly 1947- sculptor and
lettercutter
Joyce McMillan 1948- journalist,
author, theatre critic
1321.
1308.
Janette Tough (Jimmy Krankie)
1947- entertainer, broadcaster,
singer
Janet Paisley 1948- writer, poet
and playwright
1322.
1309.
1323.
Jane Monk Kelly 1948- potter
Jan Fairley 1949-2012 writer,
singer, broadcaster, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, DJ, latin american
culture & politics commentator,
international book festival director
1324.
Sheila Marshall McKechnie 19482004 campaigning director of
shelter & consumer organisations
1310.
Lis Brady 1948-2012 medical
researcher, teacher, analyst and
writer for Royal Commission on the
Ancient and Historical Monuments
1311.
Marie Lawrie “Lulu” KennedyCairns 1948- singer
1312.
Alison Elliot 1948- psychologist,
academic, first moderator Church
of Scotland
1313.
1314.
Veronica Newman 1948- potter
1325.
Jean Urquhart 1949- politician
Catriona Mason 1949- lace
maker, occupational therapist
1326.
Sheana M Stephen 1949- artist
jeweller
1327.
Maureen Child 1949- community
activist, environmentalist,
politician
1328.
Claire Macdonald 1949- cookery
writer and teacher
1329.
Ruth Wishart 1948- journalist,
broadcaster
1315.
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Jan White Miller 1950- artist,
maker
1330.
1346.
June Carey 1950- artist
Helen Liddell 1950- politician,
broadcaster, high commissioner
1347.
1331.
Gay Grossart 1950- artist
Helena Ann Kennedy of The
Shaws 1950- barrister,
broadcaster, genetics adviser
1332.
Alison Yarrington 1951- art
historian
1348.
Sheila Ann Manson McLean 1951professor of law and ethics in
medicine
1349.
Liz Cameron 1950- teacher, Lord
Provost
1333.
Val Burns 1950- potter
1350.
Lesley Hinds 1950- civic
politician
1351.
Seona Elizabeth Reid 1950- arts
consultant and director
1352.
Juliet Cadzow 1951- actor
1353.
June Redfern 1951- artist
1354.
Viv Lumsden 1952- broadcaster
1334.
Sharman Macdonald 1951playwright, screenwriter, actress
1335.
Judith Miller 1951- antiques
expert, writer and broadcaster
1336.
Sarah “Sara” Maitland 1950writer and feminist
1337.
Lesley Thomson 1950prosecutor, government law officer
1338.
1339.
Alma Cadzow 1950- broadcaster
Liz Niven 1952- poet, writer,
teacher
1355.
Pippa (Philippa Ann) Guard 1952actor
1356.
Elspeth Lamb 1950- artist,
printmaker
1340.
May Miles Thomas 1952- film
director and screenwriter
1357.
Ann Marie di Mambro 1950playwright and television
screenwriter
1341.
1342.
Annabel Goldie 1950- politician
Anne Dignan 1952- blind artist
and tactile photographer
1358.
Isla St Clair 1952- , singer, actor,
presenter
1359.
1343.
Alex Gray 1950- crime writer.
Carol McGregor 1950- film
producer
1344.
Kathleen Munro 1950administrator The Saltire Society
Myra Pearson Twiddle 1953-2012
leading teacher trainer, head of
school of education
1360.
1345.
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Eileen Adams 1953-2012
swimming coach & sportswoman
of the year
1361.
Imtiaz Dharker 1954- poet, artist
and documentary filmmaker
1374.
Agnes Mackenzie 1954- ,
presenter
1375.
Susan Valentine Manning 19532013 professor expert in literature
and the enlightenment
1362.
Robyn Marsack 1953- poetry
library director
1363.
1364.
Linda Mallet 1953- artist
Dilys Rose 1954- poet, fiction
writer
1376.
Marie McLaughlin 1954- operatic
soprano.
1377.
Kathryn Findlay 1954- architect in
Japan
1378.
Linda McTavish 1953- education
adviser
1365.
Laura Hamilton 1954- gallery
curator, textile expert
1379.
Alison Peebles 1953- actor,
director, and writer in theatre,
film, and television, co-founder of
Communicado theatre group
1366.
Isobel Lindsay 1953- politician
and peace activist
1367.
Jacki Parry 1954- printmaker,
artist papermaker
1368.
Trishna Den Pall Singh 1954community organiser
1369.
Sheena McDonald 1954broadcaster
1370.
Lin Anderson 1954- crime
novelist and screenwriter
1371.
Viviene Cree 1954- professor of
social work studies
1372.
Annie Lennox 1954- singersongwriter, political activist and
philanthropist
1373.
1380.
Judith Weir 1954- composer
1381.
Judy Murray 1954- tennis coach
Frances “Franki” Raffles 19551994 photo-grapher & cofounder
of zero tolerance campaign against
violence to women
1382.
Lesley Cooke Strathie 1955-2012
civil servant, head of HM revenue
& customs
1383.
Catherine Maxwell-Stuart of
Traquair 1955- chatelan,
entrepreneur, politician
1384.
1385.
Candia McWilliam 1955- writer
Carol Ann Duffy 1955- poet,
playwright
1386.
Val McDermid 1955- crime
writer
1387.
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Valentina Bold 1955ethnologist, cultural historian
1388.
1389.
Wendy Stewart 1955- harpist
1390.
Lise Bech 1955- basketmaker
Gerda Stevenson 1956- actor,
director, writer
1403.
Rachel Vermeer Weldon 19572012 physician serving the Small
Isles by rigid inflatable boat
1404.
Sharon Bamford 1955enterprise executive
1405.
Andrea Nolan 1955- vetinarian
academic, university administrator
1406.
1391.
1392.
Sally Magnusson 1955broadcaster & writer
1393.
Pat McIntosh 1955- geologist
writer of historical mystery fiction
and fantasy
1394.
Briony McRoberts Robb 19572013 actor
Janice Fawkes 1957-2013 social
& ethnic rights campaigner and
humanitarian
Gillian Galbraith 1957- advocate,
crime writer, journalist
1407.
Carole Baxter 1957- gardener,
broadcaster
1408.
Fiona Kennedy 1955- singer,
actor, broadcaster
1409.
Fiona Ross 1955- journalist
broadcaster
1410.
1395.
1396.
Kay Hampton 1955- human
rights expert
1397.
Kirsty Wark 1955- , journalist &
broadcaster
1398.
Lesley Duncan 1957- journalist,
poet, poetry editor
Johann McDougal Lamont 1957politician
1411.
Kate Downie 1958draughtsman, painter, printmaker,
filmmaker
1412.
Janice Galloway 1955- writer,
librettist
1413.
Fiona Armstrong 1956, journalist
& broadcaster
1414.
1399.
1400.
1401.
Phyllis Logan 1956- actor
Sally Beamish 1956- composer
and violist
1402.
Louise Cattrell 1957- artist
Muriel Gray 1958- , journalist,
broadcaster, author, entrepreneur
Alice Macfarlane 1958- potter
working with african communities,
prisoners and young offenders
Mary Contini 1958- food
entrepreneur
1415.
Katharine Mary Towneley Grant
1958- children’s writer
1416.
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Sharman Elizabeth Weir 19591999 theatre manager and
musician
1417.
Debi Gliori 1959- artist,
illustrator and writer
1431.
Laura Doyle Marney 1959writer
1432.
Carol Paton 1959-2012 housing
& care professional
1418.
Janice Hally 1959- playwright and
television screenwriter
1433.
1419.
Barbel Dister 1959- potter
Audrey Baxter 1959- food
entrepreneur
1420.
Bridget McConnell 1959cultural administrator
1421.
Gillian McKeith 1959- ,
nutritionist, presenter, writer
1434.
Charlotte Ramsden Cheverton
1960-1991 art teacher, cofounder Leith School of Art
1435.
Carole Emily Barrowman 1959creative studies teacher, reviewer
and crime fiction columnist
1436.
Sheena Easton (Sheena Shirley
Orr) 1959- recording artist and
actress.
1437.
1422.
Pauline Thomson 1960-2012
head waitress, carer, ordained
minister
1423.
Rona Munro 1959- writer for
theatre, radio, and television
1424.
Fiona McIntosh 1960- writer and
champion fencer.
1438.
Bella Green 1960- painter
Anne Mackenzie 1960broadcaster and journalist
1439.
1425.
Siobhan Redmond 1959- actor
Lorraine Kelly 1959, broadcaster,
journalist, actor
1426.
Sandra Hood 1959- police
officer, policy adviser
1427.
Anna Magnusson 1960producer and broadcaster
1440.
1441.
Sandy Welch 1960- screenwriter
Lesley Thomson 1960communications adviser and arts
trustee
1442.
Meg (Vivienne Margaret)
Bateman 1959- academic, poet
and short story writer
1428.
Leslie Riddoch 1960 broadcaster,
journalist, author
1443.
Emma Thompson 1959- actor,
comedian, screenwriter and author
1429.
Susan Garnsworthy 1960- arts
organiser
1444.
Heather Ripley Glaiser 1959child actor & environmental
campaigner
1430.
1445.
Alison Walker 1960- broadcaster
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1446.
Morag Joss 1960- novelist
1447.
Mij Kelly 1960- children’s author
Elizabeth Leighton 1960- environmental consultant
1448.
Doon Mackichan 1962 comedian
& actress
1462.
Claire Grogan 1962- actor &
singer
1463.
Alison Louise (A.L.) Kennedy
1962- writer
1464.
Christine Bryden 1960- children’s
hospice fundraiser
1449.
1465.
Lesley Fitz-Simons 1961-2013
actor
1450.
Carol Anne Davis 1961- crime
writer
Carol MacKellaig Kirkwood 1962weather presenter
1466.
1451.
Carol Smillie 1961, presenter &
actor
1452.
Jackie Kay 1961- poet and
novelist
1453.
Christa Reekie 1961- commercial
director, government adviser
Shona Kinloch 1962- sculptor
1467.
Ali Smith 1962- writer
1468.
Ashley Jensen 1962 actor
1469.
Blythe Duff 1962- actor
1470.
Kathleen Jamie 1962- poet
1471.
Kaye Adams 1962- broadcaster
1454.
Manda Scott 1962- veterinary
surgeon, writer
1472.
Savourna Stevenson 1961harpist
1473.
Shereen Nanjiani 1961broadcaster
1474.
1455.
Julie Bertagna 1962- author for
children and young adults
1456.
Sarah Boyack 1961- politician,
environmentalist, reformer
1457.
1458.
Dee Hepburn 1961- , actor
Helena McEwen 1961- author &
painter
1459.
Janey Godley 1961- comedian &
writer
1460.
1461.
Jackie Bird 1962- , broadcaster
Lena Zavaroni 1963-1999 child
singer of world fame, personal
troubles followed
Wendy Alexander 1963- former
cabinet minister and labour
politician
1475.
1476.
Anne Morrison 1963- potter
1477.
Dorothy Black 1963- artist
Elizabeth Davidson Fraser 1963singer, soundtrack artist
1478.
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Isabell Buenz 1963photographer, paper artist, writer
1479.
1480.
Helen Flockhart 1963- artist
Jeni Ayris 1964-2012 africa
restaurateur
1481.
Janet Brown 1964- qualifications
executive
1482.
1483.
Liz McColgan 1964- athlete
Lorraine McIntosh 1964- singer
& actor
Yvonne Burgess 1965- singer,
community choir leader
1495.
1496.
Simone Lahbib 1965- actor
Alice Thompson 1965- musician,
novelist
1497.
Jacqueline Y Q Mok 1965paediatrician
1498.
Irene McAra-McWilliam 1965design consultant and teacher
1499.
1484.
1485.
Aminatta Forna 1964- writer
Fiona Bruce 1964- , broadcaster,
producer, advocate for womens
rights
1486.
Evelyn Glennie 1965- classical
virtuoso and composer
1487.
Hazel Irvine 1965- sports
broadcaster
1488.
Andrea Calderwood 1965- film
and television producer
1489.
Nicola Murray 1965photographer, printmaker, digital
atist
1490.
Carolyn Spray 1965- gardener,
broadcaster
1500.
Christine Pearson de Luca 1965much translated poet, writer for
children
1501.
Margaret Ryan 1965- children’s
writer
1502.
Louise Welsh 1965- author of
short stories and psychological
thrillers
1503.
Joanne (J.K.) Rowling 1965author,
1504.
Jessie (Jess) Riley Smith c1965traveller, hawker, gypsy, 'ganabout', autobiographer and
storyteller
1505.
1491.
Rhona Cameron 1965 comedian
1492.
Shirley Henderson 1965- actor
1506.
1493.
Alison Watt 1965- painter
1507.
Sharon McPherson [aka Cambella
McMahon] 1965- writer and book
publisher
1494.
Julie Graham 1965- actor
Kate Clanchy 1965- writer &
journalist
Kate Copstick 1966- actor,
writer, presenter, critic, director
and producer.
1508.
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Mairi Campbell 1966- singer,
musician
1509.
Laura Hird 1966- novelist and
short story writer
1510.
Shirley Ann Manson 1966recording artist and actress
1511.
1512.
Rhona Martin 1966- curler
Denise Mina 1966- novelist and
playwright
1513.
Sharon McCord 1967-2012
journalist [aka Sara Villiers] and
charity worker
1514.
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri 1967recording artist, singer, songwriter
1524.
Daniela Nardini 1968- actor
1525.
Kirsty Young 1968- , broadcaster
Kelly Dalglish Cates 1968broadcaster
1526.
Jane Hyslop 1968- painter,
printmaker
1527.
Jan Hogarth 1968- sculptor,
designer, landscape draughtsman
1528.
Donalda McKinnon 1969broadcasting administrator
1529.
Linda Drew 1969- art and design
adviser
1530.
1515.
Vicky Featherstone 1967- theatre
director, artistic director,
commissioner of dramatic writing
Shelley Joffre 1969- journalist &
broadcaster
1531.
1516.
Karen Campbell 1967- fiction
writer
1517.
1518.
Abigail McLellan 1968-2009 artist
Lizanne Henderson 1969cultural historian, folklorist, expert
on witch-hunts and fairy belief
1532.
1533.
Tamara Kennedy 1969- actor
1534.
Andrea McLean 1969- , presenter
Christina McKelvie 1968politician
1535.
Ronni Ancona 1968- ,actor,
broadcaster
1536.
Catriona Matthew 1969- golfer
1537.
Cecily Brown 1969- painter
1519.
1520.
Sarah Smith 1968- broadcast
reporter
Catriona MacDonald, leading
fiddle player 1969-
1521.
Shirley Robertson 1968- olympic
sailor
Heather Reid 1969- ,
meteorologist, physicist, presenter
1538.
1522.
Sara Louise Goodwin Sheridan
1968- writer mainly of historical
fiction
1523.
Judith Ralston 1969broadcaster
1539.
Joanna Blythman 1970- food
journalist, writer and broadcaster
1540.
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1541.
Anne Donovan 1970- author
Anne McKevitt 1970- interior
designer, broadcaster,
entrepreneur
Romana D'Annunzio 1972presenter
1557.
1542.
Shelagh McCall 1970- human
rights lawyer
1543.
Stella Tennent 1970- fashion
model
1544.
Sue Lawrence 1970- food writer
and broadcaster
1545.
1546.
Sarah Heaney 1970- , broadcaster
1547.
Nicola Sturgeon 1970- politician
Katherine Campbell 1970ethnologist, expert in traditional
song and instruments, singer
1548.
Kate Phillips 1970- encaustic
artist
1558.
Neve McIntosh 1972- actor
1559.
Janice Moodie 1973- golfer
Sandra Alland 1973- writer,
interdisciplinary artist, small press
publisher, performer and
filmmaker
1560.
Linda Norgrove 1974-2010 aid
worker, hostage in Afghanistan
1561.
Amanda Hamilton 1974entrepreneur, broadcaster, writer
1562.
Victoria Hipkin 1974- NASA
space station scientist in mars
exploration
1563.
1564.
Natalie Joy Robb 1974- actor
1549.
Jane Lewis 1970- sports
journalist & broadcaster
Julie Houston 1974- artist in
colour & form
1565.
1550.
Lise Sinclair Best 1971-2013
crofter, poet, musician, singer,
songwriter, teacher & journalist in
remote community
Caro Ramsay 1975- osteopath
and writer of crime fiction
1566.
1551.
Michelle Allan Mone 1971entrepreneur
1552.
1553.
Karen Dunbar 1971- comedian
1554.
Gail Porter 1971- presenter
1555.
Jenny Colgan 1972- writer
1556.
Julie Wilson Nimmo 1972- actor
1567.
Carol Ritchie 1975- artist
1568.
Catriona Campbell 1975- artist
Theresa Breslin 1975- writer for
young adults
1569.
Zoë Strachan 1975- novelist,
journalist and university tutor
1570.
Gail Pirie McGrane 1975broadcaster
1571.
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1572.
Jenni Keenan 1975- actor
1573.
Kate Hadjuke 1975- artist
Sophie Cooke 1976 novelist, short
story writer, poet, and travel writer
Rosie Kellagher 1978- theatre
director and dramaturg
1587.
1588.
Ruth Davidson 1978- politician
1574.
Heather Suttie 1976- broadcaster
and ecocampaigner
Catherine Lockerbie 1978journalist, book festival director
1589.
1575.
1576.
Kelly Macdonald 1976-actor
Kirsty Jane Gallacher 1976presenter
1577.
1578.
Kirsty Hume 1976- fashion model
1579.
Kirsty McCabe 1976 presenter
1580.
Jenni Falconer 1976, broadcaster
Isobel Campbell 1976- singer,
songwriter, originally of Belle &
Sebastian
1581.
Holly Fulton 1976- fashion
designer
Hannah McAndrew 1978potter
1590.
Jo (Joanne) Pitt 1979-2012
equestrian with cerebral palsy,
competed at the Athens
Paralympics and represented
Britain at european and world
events
1591.
Alison Lefroy Brooks 1979accountant & treasurer
1592.
1593.
Carmen Pieraccini 1979- actor
1594.
Edith Bowman 1979- presenter
1582.
Laura Kuenssberg 1976journalist and broadcaster
Dawn Porter 1979, presenter,
writer
1595.
1583.
Angela Bollan 1977-1996 suicide
while in prison, subject of
government inquiry
Jane Raven 1979- glass and
stone engraver
1596.
1584.
1585.
Rae Hendrie 1977- actor
Susan Calman c1978- comedian
and broadcaster
1586.
1597.
Kerry Aylin 1979- designer
1598.
Gillian Smart 1980- broadcaster
Catriona “Cathy” MacDonald
c1980- broadcaster
1599.
Alison Miller 1980- writer, adult
educator, counselling supervisor
1600.
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Michelle McManus 1980- ,singer,
writer, broadcaster
1601.
Sheila MacLean 1989- landscape
artist
1617.
Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh 1981actor
1618.
Nicci Jolly 1981- , broadcaster,
journalist
1619.
1602.
1603.
1604.
Cat Cubie 1981- broadcaster
Charlotte Runcie 1989journalist, writer, poet
Claire Hamilton 1989- Olympic
bronze curling athlete
Vicki Adams 1989- Olympic
bronze curling athlete
1620.
Catriona Shearer 1981- ,
journalist, broadcaster, producer
1605.
1606.
Emily SmiCth 1981- folk singer
Anna Wendy Stevenson 1982=
fiddler
1607.
1608.
Janice Forsyth 1982- presenter
1609.
Gillian Cooke 1982 athlete
1610.
Amy Geddes 1983- fiddler
Natalie Pike 1983- , fashion
model
Angelica Gray 1990- , fashion
model
1621.
Eve Muirhead 1990- curler and
bagpiper, led team to win 2013
world women's curling championship and 2014 olympic bronze
1622.
Jean Cameron 1990- artist, arts
organiser
1623.
1611.
Sarah Mason 1984- cultural
organiser at saltire society
Anna Sloan 1991- Olympic
bronze curling athlete
1624.
1612.
1613.
Amanda Rae 1985- artist
1614.
Siobhan Miller 1987- singer
1615.
Karen Gillan 1987 - actor
Nicola Benedetti 1987- classical
violinist, concert & recording artist
Emma Maree Urquhart 1991writer, computer engineer
1625.
Lauren Gray 1991- Olympic
bronze curling athlete
1626.
1616.
For more about Notable Scottish Women see
www.kosmoid.net/saltire/notablewomen
Women born, living or working in Scotland, or of significant Scottish ancestry or heritage, or significant visitors to Scotland compiled by J.R.Kelly 2/2014 Page 72 of 72