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Marie Stopes

Other names: 
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Mr Reginald Ruggles Gates, Mrs Humphrey Verdon Roe
Dates: 
15 October 1880 - 2 October 1958

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Images: 
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

Louisa Stevenson

Mary Lily Walker

Dates: 
5 July 1863 - July 1913

Mary Lily Walker was one of Dundee University College's first woman entrants, studying Latin, Maths, Biology and Chemistry.

She became aware of the appalling living conditions of Dundee's poor. She joined the Dundee Social Union.

She founded Grey Lodge Settlement as part of the University Settlement movement. She set up baby clinics, health visitors, school dinners and children’s convalescent holidays.

She died days before her 50th birthday.

Images: 
Centenary mug

Mrs Bramwell Booth

Title: 
Lieutenant, then Captain Florence Eleanor Soper
Other names: 
nee Florence Eleanor Soper, Florrie for short, Mrs William Bramwell Booth
Dates: 
12th September 1861 – 10th June 1957

Florence was born in Blaina, Monmouthshire, South Wales on 12th September 1861. Her parents were Isobel Soper, a Doctor, and Jenny Levick. She had two sisters and a brother, all younger. When she was 9 years old her mother died and she lived with one of her aunts until her father remarried. She was a gifted musician and had an active childhood.

Florence joined the Salvation Army in 1880 and worked alongside Bramwell's sister Catherine in France.

Images: 
Florence Eleanor Soper c1882 (copyright expired)
Florence Eleanor Soper c1882 (copyright expired)
Florence Eleanor Soper c1882 (copyright expired)
Sources
Florence Soper
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
Catherine Bramwell Booth
Biography of Florence Eleanor Soper's eldest daughter Catherine Booth
Bramwell Booth
Biography of Florence Eleanor Soper's husband William Bramwell Booth.

Millicent Fanny St Clair Erskine

Title: 
Lady, Duchess of Sutherland
Other names: 
First married surname - Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. Second married surname - Fitzgerald. Third married surname - Hawes.
Dates: 
20 October 1867 - 20 August 1955

Founder of the Sutherland Benefit Nursing Association, the Sutherland Technical School and the Sutherland Gaelic Association. During the First World War she established and ran the Millicent Sutherland Ambulance, for which she was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and Belgian Royal Red Cross.

Sources
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, Rds Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes, EUP, 2007
page 311.

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

Flora Stevenson

Other names: 
Flora Clift Stevenson
Dates: 
30 October 1839 - 28 September 1905

Flora Stevenson was born in Glasgow...

In 1899 a new school at Comely Bank in Edinburgh was named the Flora Stevenson Primary School in her memory, now also home to the City of Edinburgh Music School.

Sources
Photograph of a portrait of Flora Stevenson by Alexander Roche (currently in National Gallery)
Wikimedia Commons
Flora Stevenson
Wikipedia page with information from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (need to subscribe)

Mary Crudelius

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.

Sources
The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Based on an entry by Lindy Moore
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Based on an entry by Sheila Hamilton

Catherine Spence

Dates: 
Born 31 October 1825, died 3 April 1910

Catherine Helen Spence was born in Melrose, the daughter of Helen Brodie, and David Spence, banker, lawyer and clerk. The fifth of eight children, she began her education in Melrose, then, due to her father’s ruinous investments the family emigrating to South Australia in 1839. There she worked as a governess, and later ran her own school.

She wrote several novels, the first of which, Clara Morison (1854), tells the story of a young Scottish orphan making her way in South Australia.

Sources
The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Based on an entry by Margaret Allen

Mary Burton

Dates: 
Born 7 February 1819, died 19 March 1909

Mary Burton was born in Aberdeen but moved to Edinburgh in 1832 with her widowed mother and brother. She never married, but raised her orphaned nephews and nieces, and was educated by her mother. She persuaded the Watt Institution and School of Arts (forerunner of Heriot-Watt University) to open its classes to female students in 1869, and became its first woman director in 1874.

Sources
The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Based on an entry by Ann Jones
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