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Helen Crummy

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.

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Obituary: Dr Helen Crummy MBE, social activist
Scotsman Obituary
Andrew Thomas, Stephen P, Philip John, Larry, Helen Crummy
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