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Chrystal Macmillan
Submitted by Lucy Byatt on 14 April 2012 - 3:33pm
Revised: 21 January 2013 - 11:53am — Rose
Other names:
Jessie
Dates:
1872-1937
Chrystal Macmillan was born in Corstophine, Edinburgh. She became the first female science graduate from the University of Edinburgh in 1896, as well as the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She campaigned for women's rights to vote and became the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords in 1908. As an active pacifist, she was present at the International Women's Congress in The Hague in 1915, and later organised the International Committee for Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) and its congress in Zurich.