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Jessie Kesson
Submitted by Heather Fiona on 19 August 2013 - 7:47pm
Revised: 7 October 2013 - 11:27am — admin
Title:
Scottish Novelist
Other names:
Jessie Grant McDonald (Kesson)
Dates:
Born 28 October 1916 died 26 September 1994
Jessie Grant McDonald was born illegitimate in the Workhouse at Inverness. They moved to Elgin where they lived in poverty. When her mother became ill Jessie then 8 years old was removed and placed in an orphanage called Proctors House in Kirkton of Skene, Aberdeenshire.
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Maggie Keswick Jencks
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 July 2013 - 7:23pm
Revised: 23 July 2013 - 8:06pm — Margaret Fergus...
Other names:
Margaret Keswick, Mrs Charles Alexander Jencks
Dates:
10th October 1941 - 8th July 1995
Margaret, who was known as Maggie, was born at Cowhill Tower near Dumfries on 10th October 1941, only child of Sir John Henry Keswick and Clare Mary Alice Elwes (married 17.01.1940 at Westminster Cathedral). She was brought up in Scotland and the Far East where her father was part of the Scottish business empire, Jardine, Matheson & Company. Maggie read English at Oxford, after attending school in Woldingham, Surrey.
Maggie was...
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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.
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Janet Courtney
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 28 November 2012 - 7:04pm
Revised: 29 December 2023 - 6:36pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
Her maiden name was Hogarth.
Dates:
27 November 1865 - 24 September 1954
Mrs Janet Courtney was a senior member of the Carnegie Trust, which funded the building of the hostel in Lerwick.
She studied Philosophy at Oxford. She was the first woman to occupy a post in the Bank of England, in 1894, when she was appointed to organise a staff of female clerks. She was part of the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1906-1914 and 1920-22. During the First World War she worked in staff welfare for the Ministry of Munitions, and was awarded an OBS in 1917.
She was one of the first female magistrates.
Judith Mary MacGregor
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 21 October 2012 - 6:24pm
Revised: 22 October 2012 - 9:47am — admin
Title:
Lady
Other names:
Mrs David Steel, Mrs Judith Steel, Lady Steel, Judy
Dates:
born 1940
Judith Mary MacGregor was born in Dollar, Clachmannanshire in 1940. She studied Law at Edinburgh University and had a short legal career.
In 1962 she married David Martin Scott Steel (born 31 March 1938) whom she met a university. He is a politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Lord (Baron) Steel of Aikwood and now Life Peer in the House of Lords. They have 3 children: Graeme, Catriona Judith born 1967 and Rory, as well as an adopted son William (Billy).
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Mary Shelley
Submitted by Alison McCall on 12 September 2012 - 1:18pm
Revised: 23 October 2012 - 2:10pm — admin
Other names:
née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Dates:
1797-1851
Author of "Frankenstein"
Millicent Fanny St Clair Erskine
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 September 2012 - 7:21pm
Revised: 11 September 2012 - 7:37pm — Alison McCall
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.
Janet Hamilton
Submitted by Helen M Bushe on 18 June 2012 - 7:32pm
Revised: 18 June 2012 - 7:55pm — Helen M Bushe
Other names:
Janet Thomson
Dates:
d.o.b.12th October 1795 died 27th october 1873
Janet Hamilton was a poet and author who lived in what is now Coatbridge in the 19th century.
She was born Janet Thomson in Shotts in October 1795, in a house that was a remnant of an old farm steading, named Carshill.
Her father, James Thomson was a shoemaker and was a well read man with a keen interest in politics. Her mother’s name was Mary Brownlee.
Janet was fifth in descent from John Whitelaw, who was executed at the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh, four years after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, in which he had taken an active role as a supporter of the Covenanting principles.
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Alice Ivy Hay
Submitted by Alison McCall on 7 April 2012 - 9:42pm
Revised: 21 May 2012 - 2:02pm — admin
Other names:
Her maiden name was Wigmore. Her first married surname was Paterson.
Dates:
approx 1895-1982.
Alice Ivy Wigmore was born in Australia and moved to the UK when she was twelve. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London and became a distinguished violinist. She married, firstly, Walter Paterson and then, after his death, Malcolm V. Hay. She wrote several books, mostly biographical, and collaborated with her husband to write on Jewish history. Alice Hay owned a house in Israel and spoke fluent Hebrew. The couple collected Hebrew texts, which they bequeathed to the University of Aberdeen.
Catherine Spence
Submitted by admin on 4 March 2012 - 8:44pm
Revised: 9 March 2012 - 2:29pm — admin
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.
