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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.

Images: 
Picture of Jane Rae
Sources
Clydebank Women's History Group
Information researched by Clydebank Women's History group, with thanks to Clydebank Library heritage Centre.

Margaret Humphrey

Other names: 
Margaret Allen
Dates: 
Baptised 16 February 1773

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.

Sources
Census returns
Balfour of Balfour & Trenaby papers
Letter from John Baikie to Thomas Balfour MP, 24 Feb. 1836
Undelivered letters to Hudson Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
Edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M Buss (see pp. 103-115)

Plaque on 'Mrs Humphrey's House'

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

MRS HUMPHREY’S HOUSE
TEMPORARY HOSPITAL
1835-1836
FOR SCURVY RIDDEN WHALE
MEN WHO HAD BEEN
TRAPPED IN THE ICE
FOR MONTHS

Location:
On the side of a building in Stromness
Back Road
Stromness
Images: 
Plaque on 'Mrs Humphrey's House'

Grave and plaque to Josephine Butler

Dedicated to: 
Material: 
Stone
Location:
Graveyard, St Gregory the Great churchyard
Kirknewton, NBL

Josephine Butler

Other names: 
Josephine Elizabeth Grey
Dates: 
Born 13 April 1825, died 30 December 1906

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.

Sources
Josephine Butler Memorial Trust
Durham University Josephine Butler College website

Heritage Trail Plaque to Elsie Inglis

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

DR ELSIE INGLIS
1864- 1917
HERITAGE TRAIL

Location:
on the wall up at 1st floor window level
219 High Street, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, RH1 1PE
Images: 
Heritage Trail Plaque to Elsie Inglis
Additional information: 

"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

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Women of Achievement
ELSIE INGLIS

Location:
on the wall near the level of the 1st floor windows
219 High Street, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 1PE
Images: 
Women of Achievement Trail Plaque to Elsie Inglis
Additional information: 

Part of the Edinburgh Women's Achievement Trail

Florence Nightingale

Other names: 
real surname: Shore
Dates: 
12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910

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

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

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

Date: 
1954
Material: 
Stone cairn approx. 12ft high with bronze plaque
Location:
Junction of Dundonald road and Re nfrew Road in Paisley
Renfrew Road
Paisley, RFW
Images: 
Cairn to Marjory Bruce
Cairn to Marjory Bruce

Princess Alexandra

Title: 
Princess, Lady
Other names: 
Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Dates: 
25 December 1936

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.

Sources
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (and links from there to other family pages)
Wikipedia Website page