Campaigner for women's higher education
Records tagged with Keywords: Campaigner for women's higher education
Jessie Campbell
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 5 April 2012 - 10:32am
Revised: 2 July 2013 - 12:35pm — admin
Title:
LLD (Honorary)
Other names:
Nee Janet Black, Mrs James Campbell
Dates:
26th March, 1827 - 10th Feb 1907
Daughter of Merchant James Black and Eliza Taylor, Janet (Jessie) was born at Cross-Arthurlie, Neilston, Renfrewshire on 26th March, 1827.
On 21st April, 1846 Jessie married the Laird of Tullichewan, James Campbell (1823-1901). In 1817 his father William and Uncle James had founded J & W Campbell & Company, a warehousing, wholesale and retail drapery company, based at Ingram Street in Glasgow. His cousins were James Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, and James Alexander Campbell, Politician and Provost in Glasgow.
Mary Crudelius
Submitted by admin on 4 March 2012 - 8:52pm
Revised: 9 March 2012 - 2:29pm — admin
Other names:
Maiden name: M'Lean
Dates:
Born 23 February 1839, died 24 July 1877
Mary Crudelius was the daughter of Mary Alexander and William M’Lean from Dumfriesshire, merchant. She was born in Bury, Lancashire, and educated partly at Miss Turnbull’s boarding school in Edinburgh. In 1861, she married Rudolph Crudelius, a German wool merchant who was working in Leith, and they had two daughters, Maud and Mary.
