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Jane Rae
Political activist and suffragette Jane Rae was born in Bonnybridge in 1872, but came to live in Clydebank with her family. She was a strikingly tall woman, strong-willed and studious.
She worked in the Singer Factory's 'Needle Flat' in Clydebank, and was actively involved in the strike of 1911 - for which she was sacked. She joined the Independent Labour Party after hearing Keir Hardie, and became the Clydebank Branch Secretary in 1913.
Margaret Humphrey
Margaret Allen was the daughter of William Allan and Margaret Wilson. She married George Humphrey on 9 June 1791, and according to the 1821 Census return, George was a teacher. The couple had 13 children between 1792 and 1815.
Plaque on 'Mrs Humphrey's House'
MRS HUMPHREY’S HOUSE
TEMPORARY HOSPITAL
1835-1836
FOR SCURVY RIDDEN WHALE
MEN WHO HAD BEEN
TRAPPED IN THE ICE
FOR MONTHS
Grave and plaque to Josephine Butler
Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Grey was born on 13 April 1828 in Milfield, Northumberland, to John Grey (a cousin of Earl Grey) and his wife Hannah Annett. Educated at home, she was strongly influenced by her father’s passion for social reform and hatred of injustice. She married George Butler, then a tutor at Oxford, in 1852 with whom she shared many concerns, including the need for the abolition of slavery, and better rights for marginalised women.
Heritage Trail Plaque to Elsie Inglis
DR ELSIE INGLIS
1864- 1917
HERITAGE TRAIL
"In 1904 she set up a small maternity hospital for Edinburgh's poor in the city's High Street, staffed entirely by women. This later became the Elsie Maude Inglis Memorial Hospital." (Undiscovered Scotland www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/i/elsieinglis....)
The street numbering is likely to have changed.
Women of Achievement Plaque to Elsie Inglis
Women of Achievement
ELSIE INGLIS
Part of the Edinburgh Women's Achievement Trail
Florence Nightingale
Florence was named after the city of her birth on 12th May, 1820, daughter of William Edward Shore and Frances Smith, who changed their surname to Nightingale as a requirement for inheriting
Her elder sister Frances Parthenope Nightingale was a writer and journalist, and became Lady Harry Verney.
She was expected marry and lead the life of an upper class woman at that time, but preferred to live the unconventional life of a nurse and trained for 3 months in Germany...
Sidney Herbert, war secretary asked Florence to lead a team of nurses to treat soldiers of the Crimean War...
Cairn with plaque to Marjory Bruce
NEAR THIS SPOT
THE PRINCESS MARJORY BRUCE
WAS FATALLY INJURED
BY FALLING FROM HER HORSE
HER SON BORN POSTHUMOUSLY
BECAME
FIRST OF THE STEWART KINGS
OF SCOTLAND
Princess Alexandra
Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London, daughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent (fourth son of George V and Queen Mary) and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia).
Her siblings are Prince Edward of Kent, born 9 October 1935 and Prince Michael of Kent, born 4 July 1942.
On 24 April 1963, she married the Honourable Angus James Bruce Ogilvy (1928–2004)at Westminster Abbey.