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Helen Crummy
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 May 2013 - 8:37pm
Revised: 11 November 2014 - 5:04pm — Margaret Fergus...
Title:
M.B.E., LLD (Dr)
Other names:
Helen Murray Crummy; nee Prentice
Dates:
10 May 1920 – 11 July 2011
Helen Murray Prentice was born in Leith on 10th May 1920, the eldest of 6 children. Her mother was Joanna Blaikie; her father John, an accomplished fiddler, was a watchmaker who trained by Royal Warrant holders Brooks & Co. He set up business in Haddington, then in Edinburgh. The family moved to Niddrie in 1931 and Helen left school at the age of 13, two years later.