This is a fully revised and extended edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements for The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2006)
• Acknowledgements for The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2018)
• Advisers to the Project (2006)
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Readers’ Guide
• New Entries
• Joint and Co-subjects
• Preface to The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
• Introduction to The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2006)
• The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
• A
• ABBOTT, Wilhelmina Hay (Elizabeth)
• ABERDEEN AND TEMAIR, Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of, (Lady Aberdeen) [I. M. Gordon]
• ACQUROFF, Helen
• ADAM, Helen Douglas
• ADAM (ADAMS), Jean
• ADAM, Mary
• ADAM SMITH, Janet
• ADAMSON, Janet Laurel (Jennie)
• ADLER, Ruth Margaret
• AEBBE, (Saint Abb)
• AEðILTHRYð, (Saint Audrey)
• AELFFLED
• AFFRICA (AUFRIKE) OF GALLOWAY, Queen of Man
• AINSLIE, Charlotte Edith
• AITHBHREAC INGHEAN COIRCEADAIL
• AITKEN, Margaret
• AITKEN, Sarah Ross (Sadie)
• ALCHFLED
• ALCOCK, (Nora) Lilian Leppard
• ALEXANDER, Helen
• ALLAN, Eliza MacNaughton (Dot)
• ALLAN, Georgina Armour [Ella Logan]
• ALLAN, Janie
• ALLAN, Jean
• ALTHAUS-REID, Marcella Maria de los Angeles
• ALTSCHUL, Annie Therese
• ANDERSON, Janet (Jenny)
• ANDERSON, Margaret
• ANDERSON, Margaret Harvie (Betty), Baroness Skrimshire
• ANDERSON, Marjorie Ogilvie
• ANDREWS, Sheila Mahala
• ANGUS, Marion Emily
• ANNA OF DENMARK, Queen of Scotland and England
• ANNABELLA Drummond, Queen of Scotland
• ANNAND, Louise Gibson
• ARCHDALE, Helen Alexander
• ARGENTOCOXOS, wife of
• ARGYLL, Anna, Countess of
• ARGYLL, Isabella, Countess of
• ARMOUR, Jean,‡
• ARMSTRONG, Janet (Jenny)
• ARRAN, Elizabeth, Countess of
• ARRAN, Fiona, Countess of
• ARTHUR, Jane
• ASQUITH, Emma Alice Margaret (Margot)
• ATHOLL, Katharine Marjory Stewart Murray, Duchess of
• ATHOLL, Katherine, Duchess of
• AUD
• AUERBACH, Charlotte (Lotte) [Charlotte Austen]
• AUST, Sarah
• B
• BAILLIE, Lady Grisell
• BAILLIE, Lady Grisell
• BAILLIE, Isobel Douglas (Isabella, Bella)
• BAILLIE, Joanna
• BAIN, Margaret
• BAIRD, Joyce Deans
• BAIRD, Matilda (May) Deans
• BAKER, Elizabeth
• BALCARRES, Anna, Countess of
• BALFOUR, Alison
• BALFOUR, Elizabeth (Betty)
• BALFOUR, Lady Evelyn Barbara (Eve)
• BALFOUR, Lady Frances
• BALFOUR, Harriet
• BALFOUR, Margaret Ida
• BALLANTINE, Georgina White,‡
• BALLANTYNE, Nellie Lochhead (Nell)
• BALLIOL, Dervorgilla
• BALNEAVES, Elizabeth (Betty)
• BALTACHA, Elena (Bally)
• BANE (or CLERK), Margaret
• BANNERMAN, Anne
• BANNERMAN, Helen Brodie Cowan
• BARBOUR, Mary,‡
• BARCLAY, Williamina McIntosh
• BARLASS, Kate
• BARNARD, Lady Anne‡
• BARNETT, Euphemia Cowan
• BARNETT, Isobel Morag, Lady
• BARNS-GRAHAM, Wilhelmina (Willie)
• BARR, Rev. Elizabeth Brown
• BARR, Isabel
• BARRY, James
• BAXTER, Etheldreda (Ethel)
• BAXTER, Evelyn Vida
• BAXTER, Mary Ann
• BEDDOWS, Charlotte Rankin Maule
• BEGG, Isabella (Isobel)
• BELL
• BELL, Lily
• BERNSTEIN, Marion
• BETHOC (Beatrice), Daughter of Somerled
• BETHUNE, Margaret
• BIGGAR, Helen Manson
• BILLINGTON-GREIG, Teresa Mary
• BIRD, Isabella Lucy
• BLACKBURN, Jemima
• BLACKWELL, Elizabeth
• BLACKWOOD, Margaret
• BLAIR, Catherine Hogg
• ‘BLAK LADY’, THE
• BLAZE de BURY, Marie Pauline Rose, Baroness
• BLETCHLEY PARK WOMEN RECRUITS.
• BOHEMIA, Elizabeth, Queen of
• BOLLAN, Angela
• BON, Ann Fraser
• BOND, Elizabeth
• BONE, Phyllis Mary
• BORROWMAN, Agnes Thomson
• BORTHWICK, Jane Laurie
• BOSWELL, Margaret (Peggie)
• BOWES-LYON, Lady Mildred Marion
• BOYD, Maggie Paton Davidson (Peggy)
• BOYD, Mary Syme
• BOYLE, Eleanor Vere Crombie (E.V.B.)
• BOYMAN, Janet
• BRAIDFUTE, Marion
• BRECHIN, Ethel
• BRIDE (BRIDGET), Saint
• BROADWOOD, Lucy Etheldred
• BRODIE, Margaret Brash
• BROOKSBANK, Mary Watson
• BROON, Maw
• BROWN, Anna
• BROWN, Dorothy
• BROWN, Elizabeth Philomena (Betty)
• BROWN, Janet McLuckie
• BROWN, Marion
• BROWN, Mary Katherine Barbara (May)
• BROWN, Meredith Jemima
• BRUCE, Christian
• BRUCE, Isabella
• BRUCE, Marjory
• BRUNTON, Mary
• BRYANS, Anne Margaret
• BRYSON, Agnes Ann
• BRYSON, Elizabeth Horne Bain
• BUCCLEUCH, Anna, Duchess of
• BUCHAN, Anna Masterton [O. Douglas]
• BUCHAN, Elspeth
• BUCHAN, Isobel, Countess of
• BUCHAN, Jane O'Neil (Janey)
• BUCHAN, Priscilla Jean Fortescue, Lady Tweedsmuir
• BUCHANAN, Dorothy Donaldson
• BUICK (or BUIK, BUEK), Mary
• BULTER, Rhoda Jernetta Ann
• BURGES, Margaret
• BURNET, Edith Mary Wardlaw
• BURNETT, Sybil (Isabella) Aird, Lady
• BURNETT-SMITH, Annie
• BURNLEY CAMPBELL
• BURNS, Elizabeth,‡
• BURNS, Margaret, (aka Matthews)
• BURTON, Mary
• BURTON Mary Rose Hill
• BURY, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria
• C
• CADDELL, Christian
• CADDY, Eileen Marion,‡
• CADELL, Grace Ross
• CAIRD, Alice Mona
• CAIRD, Janet Hinshaw
• CAIRNS, Elizabeth
• CALDER, Muriel
• CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, Frances Erskine (Fanny), Marquesa
• CALDERWOOD, Margaret, of Polton
• CALDWELL (CALDALL, CADDELL), Christian [John Dicksone]
• CALLCOTT, Maria, Lady
• CAMERON, Elizabeth Jane [Jane Duncan, Janet Sandison]
• CAMERON, Jenny (Jean)
• CAMERON, Katharine
• CAMERON, Mary Margaret
• CAMERON, Una May
• CAMPBELL, Lady Agnes
• CAMPBELL, Agnes (Lady Roseburn)
• CAMPBELL, Anna
• CAMPBELL, Dorothea Primrose
• CAMPBELL, Dorothy
• CAMPBELL, Jane, Lady Kenmure
• CAMPBELL, Jane Maud
• CAMPBELL, Janet (Jessie)
• CAMPBELL, Katherine, Countess of Crawford
• CAMPBELL, Margaret (Mary) (Highland Mary)
• CAMPBELL of Canna, Margaret Fay Shaw
• CAMPBELL, Marion
• MACDONALD, Catherine (Kate)
• CAMPBELL, Marion, of Kilberry
• CAMPBELL, Marioun (Mòr nighean Dhonnchaidh)
• CAMPBELL, Mary Maxwell
• CAMPBELL, Wilhelmina Allison (Elma)
• CAMPBELL, Willielma, Viscountess Glenorchy
• CARLYLE, Jane Welsh,‡
• CARMICHAEL, Catherine (Kay),‡
• CARMICHAEL, Elizabeth Catherine (Ella)
• CARNEGIE, Susan‡
• CARRICK, Ellen
• CARRICK, Marjory, Countess of
• CARSWELL, Catherine Roxburgh
• CATRIONA NIC FHEARGHAIS, (Christiana Ferguson)
• CAVANAGH, Catherine (Kate)
• CEAPAICH, Sileas na
• CHAIMBEUL, Fionnghal
• CHALMERS, Margaret
• CHALMERS SMITH, Dorothea
• CHANCE, Janet
• CHARTERIS, Catherine Morice (Katie)
• CHEAPE, Lady Griselda Johanna Helen
• CHECKLAND, (Edith) Olive
• CHEVERTON, Charlotte Mary Rose (Lottie)
• CHIESLEY (or CHIESLY), Rachel, Lady Grange
• CHILTON, Margaret Isabel
• CHISHOLM, Jane (Jean)
• CHISHOLM, Mairi Lambert Gooden, of Chisholm
• CHRISTIE, Isabella Robertson (Ella)
• CHRISTIE, Madeleine Elsie Jane
• CLANRANALD, Margaret, Lady
• CLAPPERTON, Jane Hume
• ‘Clarinda’
• CLARK, Elizabeth Thomson (Betty) [Joan Ure]
• CLARK, Grace
• CLARK, Mary
• CLARKSON, Bessie
• CLEGHORN, Louisa
• CLEPHANE, Elizabeth Cecilia
• CLUGSTON, Beatrice
• CLUNAS, Maggie Eliza (Lila)
• COBBOLD, Lady Evelyn
• COBLAITH
• COCKBURN, Alison
• COKE, Lady Mary
• COLLACE, Katharine, Mistress Ross
• COMYN, Agnes, Countess of Strathearn
• COMYN, Marjory, Countess of Dunbar
• COOPER, Brigid Winifred Thérèse (Budge)
• CORDINER, Helen Thomson
• ‘Countrywoman’
• COUSIN, Anne Ross
• COWAN (formerly Cohen), Evelyn
• COWAN, Minna Galbraith
• CRAIG, Elizabeth Josephine
• CRAIG, Isa
• CRAIGMYLE, Elizabeth (Bessie),‡
• CRAIK, Helen
• CRANSTON, Catherine (Kate) (aka Miss Cranston)
• CRAWFORD, Jane Glen
• CRAWFORD, Marion Kirk, (‘Crawfie’)
• CRAWFURD, Helen
• CRICHTON, Elizabeth
• CRICHTON, Margaret
• CROALL, Annie Knight
• CROFTON, Eileen Chris (Lady Crofton)
• CROOKSTONE, Jackie
• CRUDELIUS, Mary
• CRUICKSHANK, Helen Burness (Nell)
• CULLEN, Alice
• CULLEN, Margaret
• CULROSS, Elizabeth, Lady
• CUMMING, Constance
• CUMMING, Elizabeth
• CUMMING, Jane
• CUNNINGHAM, Elizabeth, Countess of Glencairn
• CUNNINGHAM, Lady Margaret
• CURRAN, Agnes
• CURRIE, Ethel Dobbie
• CUTHBURH
• D
• DALHOUSIE, Christian, Countess of
• DALRYMPLE, Christian
• DALRYMPLE, Learmonth White (Leah)
• DAMER, Anne Seymour
• DANIELL, Madeline Margaret
• DARE, Margaret Marie
• DAVIE, Elspeth Mary
• DAVISON, Euphemia
• DAWSON, Ellen
• DEANS, Charlotte
• DEMPSTER, Elizabeth Strachan
• DENCE, Marjorie Lillian
• DER-ILEI
• DERWENT, Lavinia
• DEVINE, Rachel
• DICK, Beetty
• DICKSON, Katherine Joan Balfour
• DICKSON WRIGHT, Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda
• DIORBHAIL NIC A’ BHRUTHAINN, (Dorothy Brown)
• DIXIE, Florence Caroline (Florrie), Lady
• DOCHERTY, Mary
• DODD, Elizabeth [Lavinia Derwent]
• DODS, Mary Diana [David Lyndsay, Walter Sholto Douglas]
• DODS, Meg
• DOLLAN, Agnes Johnston, Lady
• DONALDSON, Mary Ethel Muir (M. E. M.)
• DOUGLAS, Alison
• DOUGLAS, Cecilia
• DOUGLAS, Charlotte Ann
• DOUGLAS, Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Erroll
• DOUGLAS, Lady Frances
• DOUGLAS, Lady Jane
• DOUGLAS, Janet, Lady Glamis
• DOUGLAS, Katherine (Catherine) [Kate Barlass]
• DOUGLAS, Margaret
• DOUGLAS, Lady Margaret, Countess of Lennox
• DOUGLAS, O.
• DOUGLAS, Walter Sholto
• DOUTHWAITE, Patricia Morgan Graham (Pat)
• DRINKWATER, Winifred Joyce,‡
• DRUMMOND, Flora McKinnon
• DRUMMOND, Jane (Jean), Countess of Roxburghe
• DRUMMOND, Margaret
• DRUMMOND, May (aka Marion or Mariana)
• DRUMMOND, Victoria Alexandrina
• DRYSDALE, Anne
• DUNBAR, Agnes, Countess of
• DUNBAR, Elizabeth
• DUNBAR, Elizabeth, Countess of Moray
• DUNCAN, Agnes McMillan
• DUNCAN, Isabelle (Wight)
• DUNCAN, Jane
• DUNCAN, Mary
• DUNCAN, Ursula Katherine
• DUNCAN, [Victoria] Helen Macrae
• DUNLOP, Annie Isabella
• DUNLOP, Frances Anna
• DUNLOP, Isobel Violet Skelton
• DUNLOP, Marion Wallace-
• DUNMORE, Catherine, Countess of
• DUNNETT, Dorothy
• E
• EANFLED
• EARDLEY, Joan Kathleen Harding,‡
• EATON, Charlotte Ann
• EGLINTON, Susanna, Countess of
• ELDER, Isabella
• ELDER, Margaret Moffat (Madge)
• ELIOT (or ELLIOT), Grace
• ELIZABETH, Angela Marguerite, Queen
• ELIZABETH DE BURGH, Queen of Scotland
• ELLIOT, Jean
• ERMENGARDE de Beaumont, Queen of Scotland
• ERSKINE, Mary
• ESSLEMONT, Mary,‡
• EUPHEMIA of Ross, Queen of Scotland
• EVOTA (EVE) of Stirling
• EWING, Margaret Anne,‡
• F
• FAIRFIELD, Cecily
• FARQUHAR, Barbara Henry
• FARQUHARSON, Marian Sarah
• FARQUHARSON, Marjorie Milne
• FENWICK, Margaret Taylor Naysmith
• FERGUSON, Christiana
• FERGUSSON, Mary Isolen (Molly)
• FERRIER, Susan Edmonstone
• FIFE, Isobel of, Countess of Buchan
• FINDLATER, Mary Williamina
• FINDLATER, Jane Helen
• FINDLAY, Jessie
• FINDLAY, Kathryn Elizabeth
• FINELLA
• FINNIE, Agnes
• FISH, Elizabeth Mary Jane
• FISHER, Ray Galbraith
• FLEMING, Marjory
• FLEMING, Williamina Paton
• FLETCHER, Christian
• FLETCHER, Eliza,‡
• FLETCHER, Elizabeth (Betty)
• FLUCKER, Barbara,‡
• FOCKART, Janet
• FORBES, Katherine, Lady Rothiemay
• FORBES-SEMPILL, Elizabeth
• FORLONG[E], Eliza
• FORRESTER, Isobel Margaret Stewart
• FORREST-THOMSON, Veronica Elizabeth Marian
• FORRESTER-PATON, Catherine
• FORSTER, Jacqueline Moir (Jackie)
• FRANKLAND, Grace Coleridge
• FRASER, Eliza Anne
• FRASER, Helen Miller [the ‘Chieftainess’]
• FRASER, Janet
• FRASER, Jessie
• FRASER, Kate
• FRASER, Marion Anne, (Lady Marion Fraser)
• FRASER, Olive
• FUCHS, Eileen Margaret
• FULHAME, Elizabeth
• G
• GALLOWAY, Dervorgilla of, (Dervorgilla Balliol)
• GALLOWAY, Janet Anne (or Ann)
• GALT, Maud
• GARDEN, Mary
• GARDINER, Margaret Emilia
• GARRETT, Edward
• GARRY, Flora Macdonald
• GARSCADDEN, Kathleen Mary Evelyn
• GEDDES, Anna
• GEDDES, Jenny
• GEISSLER, Alison Cornwall
• GILBERTSON, Jenny Isabel
• GILCHRIST, Anne Geddes
• GILCHRIST, Marion
• GILCHRIST, Mary Dinorah
• GILLESPIE, Lilias
• GILLESPIE, Margaret
• GILLON, Mary
• GIRLING, Elizabeth Jean St Clair
• GLAMIS, Janet, Lady
• GLASGOW GIRLS:
• GLENORCHY, Willielma, Lady
• GLOAG, Helen
• GLOVER, Jean
• GORDON, Henrietta, Duchess of
• GORDON, Isabella
• GORDON, Jane (Jean), Countess of Bothwell (1566–67)
• GORDON, Jane, Duchess of
• GORDON, Jean
• GORDON, Maria Matilda
• GORDON, Mary Clark
• GORDON CATHCART, Emily Eliza Steele, Lady
• GORDON-CUMMING, Constance Frederica
• GORDON-CUMMING, Lady Eliza Maria
• GORDON-MCKAY, Helen Orr (Elenor)
• GORMLA (Gormshuil Mhór)
• GOWDIE, Isobel
• GRAHAM, Helen
• GRAHAM, Isabella
• GRAHAM, Margaret Manson
• GRAHAM, Maria (Lady Callcott)
• GRAHAM, Violet Hermione, Duchess of Montrose
• GRAHAMSLAW, Helen, of Newton
• GRANGE, Rachel, Lady
• GRANT, Anne, of Laggan
• GRANT, Beatrice
• GRANT, Elizabeth, of Rothiemurchus
• GRANT, Isabel Frances (Elsie)
• GRANT, Isobel
• GRANT, Katherine Whyte
• GRANT, Mary
• GRANT, Mary Pollock (May)
• GRAY, Elizabeth
• GRAY, Elspet Jeans (Lady Rix)
• GRAY, Norah Neilson
• GREENLEES, Allison Hope
• GREENLEES, Georgina Mossman
• GREGORY, Helen (Ella)
• GREIG, Jane (or Jean) Stocks
• GRIERSON, Ruby Isabel
• GRIEVE, Jemima Bessie
• GRIEVE, Mary Margaret, [Mary Lyon]
• GRIMOND, Laura Miranda
• GRUOCH, Queen of Scotland (Lady Macbeth)
• GUNN, Isabel
• GUNNING, Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton, Duchess of Argyll,‡
• GUTHRIE, Helen
• H
• HAINING, Jane Mathison,‡
• HALDANE, Elizabeth Sanderson
• HALIBURTON, Marion (Mariot), Lady Home
• HALKETT, Anne, Lady
• HAMILTON, Agnes
• HAMILTON, Anne, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton
• HAMILTON, Elizabeth
• HAMILTON, Helen
• HAMILTON Janet
• HAMILTON, Katherine, Lady Murray and Duchess of Atholl
• HAMILTON, Margaret, Countess of Panmure
• HAMILTON, Lady Mary
• HAMILTON, Mary Agnes (Molly)
• HANNAY, Jane Ewing
• HARDEN, Janet (Jessy)
• HARDIE, Agnes
• HARDIE, Margaret (‘Midside Maggie’)
• HARGRAVE, Letitia
• HARRIS, Amelia
• HARRISON, Margaret
• HART, Constance Mary (Judith)
• HART, Jennifer Marianne (Maidie),‡
• HARTSIDE, Margaret
• HASTIE, Annie Harper
• HATTON, G. Noel
• HAWARDEN, Clementina, Viscountess
• HAY, Helen Ann
• HAY, Helen (Eleanor, Helenor), Countess of Linlithgow
• HAY, Jane
• HENERY, Marion
• HEPBURN, Anne
• HEPBURN, Jane (Janet), Lady Seton
• HERBISON, Margaret McCrorie (Peggy)
• HERSCHEL, Margaret Brodie
• HERZFELD, Gertrude Marian Amalia
• HESKETH, Marianne Edith Frances
• HEWAT, Elizabeth Glendinning Kirkwood
• ‘Highland Mary’
• HILL, Amelia
• HODGE, Hannah
• HOGG, Jane Donaldson
• HOGG, Margaret
• HOLM, Helen Warren
• HOOD, Morag Macleod
• HOPEKIRK, Helen
• HOPPRINGLE (or Pringle), Isabella
• HORNE, Janet
• HORSBRUGH, Florence Gertrude, Baroness Horsbrugh
• HOTCHKIS, Anna Mary
• HOUSTON, Caterina (or Catherine) Rita Murphy Gribbin (Renée)
• HUGHES, Agnes Paterson (Nan)
• HUGHES, Edith
• HUGONE, Katherine
• HUME, Anna
• HUMPHREYS, Elizabeth Margaret Jane (Eliza) [Rita]
• HUNTER, Allison Carnegie
• HUNTER, Anne
• HUNTER, Margaret Annie
• HUNTER, Maureen Hunter McVeigh (Mollie)
• HUNTLY, Henrietta, Countess of
• HURD, Dorothy Iona,‡
• HUSBAND, Ann (Agnes)
• HUTCHISON, Isabel Wylie,‡
• HUTCHISON, Mary
• HUTTON, Sibilla (Sibbie)
• I
• INGIBJORG (‘mother of earls’ jarlamó∂ir)
• INGLIS, Elsie Maude
• INGLIS, Esther
• INGLIS CLARK, Jane Isabella (Janie)
• INNES, Susan (Sue, Susie),‡
• INVERARITY, Eliza
• IRVINE, Jessie Seymour
• IRWIN, Margaret Hardinge
• ISABELLA Bruce, Queen of Norway
• ISABELLA of FIFE
• ISEABAIL NÍ MHEIC CAILEAN
• IURMINBURG
• J
• JACOB, Violet Augusta Mary Frederica
• JAFFRAY, Grissel
• JAMIESON, Christina [John Cranston]
• JAMIESON, Hilda
• JARVIE, Margaret
• JEX-BLAKE, Sophia Louisa
• JOAN Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
• JOAN of England, Queen of Scotland
• JOHNSTON, Anne (Annie)
• JOHNSTON, Elizabeth
• JOHNSTON, Ellen
• JOHNSTON, Euphemia
• JOHNSTONE, Caroline Elizabeth Mary (Carrie)
• JOHNSTONE, Christian Isobel [Meg Dods]
• JOHNSTONE, Dorothy
• JONES, Beti
• JORDAN, Jessie,‡
• K
• KAY, Christian Janet
• KAY, Christina,‡
• KAYE, Dinah (n. Kay Cumming)
• KEDDIE, Henrietta [Sarah Tytler]
• KEER, Honoria Somerville
• KEILLER, Gabrielle Muriel
• KEILLER, Janet
• KEIR, Elizabeth
• KEITH, Annas (Agnes, Anna),‡
• KENMURE, Jane, Lady
• KENMURE, Vera Mary Muir
• KENNEDY, Janet, Lady Bothwell
• KENNEDY-FRASER, Marjory
• KEPPEL, Alice Frederica
• KER, Alice Jane Shannan Stewart
• KER, Anne, Countess of Lothian
• KER, Dame Elizabeth (‘Old Lady Buccleuch’)
• KERR, Deborah Jane
• KERR, Isabella (Isabel)
• KERRIGAN, Rose
• KESSON, Jessie
• KESWICK, Margaret (Maggie),‡
• KEYZER, Isabella
• KIDD, Margaret Henderson
• KING, Ellen Elizabeth
• KING (or Kean), Jessie
• KING, Jessie Marion
• KING, Mary
• KINNEAR, Georgina
• KNIGHT, Annie Cargill
• KNIGHT, Margaret Kennedy
• KNIGHT, Mary Joan
• L
• LAIDLAW, Margaret
• LAIDLAW, Robena Anna (later Anna Robena)
• LAMOND, Mary
• LAMONT STEWART, Murdina May (Ena)
• LARNER, Christina (Kirsty)
• LAUDERDALE, Elizabeth, Duchess of
• LAWS, Margaret Troup
• LEE, Janet (Jennie), Baroness of Asheridge,‡
• LEGGE, Isabella Wilson
• LEIGH, Margaret Mary
• LEITH, Anne
• LENEMAN, Leah
• LENNOX, Agnes
• LESLIE, Beatrix (or Beatrice)
• LESLIE, Euphemia
• LESLIE MACKENZIE, Lady
• LEVISON, Rev. Dr Mary Irene
• LEWIS, Agnes Smith
• LIEBENTHAL, Dora Tertia
• LILIAS of Ancrum
• LINDSAY, Christian
• LINKLATER, Marjorie
• LINLITHGOW, Helen, Countess of
• LISTON, Esther Wilson
• LISTON, Henrietta, Lady
• LITTLE, Janet (‘the Scotch Milkmaid’)
• LIVINGSTON, Jean (aka Lady Warriston)
• LOCHHEAD, Marion Cleland
• LOFTUS, Marie
• LOG, Margaret (‘Lucky’)
• LOGAN, Ella
• LORIMER, Jean (‘Chloris’)
• LOTHIAN, Antonella (Tony)
• LOUISE, Princess Caroline Alberta, [Myra Fontenoy], Duchess of Argyll
• LOVI, Isabell
• LOW, Bet
• LOW, Helen Nora Wilson [Lorna Moon]
• LOWE, Helen Millar
• LUMSDEN, Louisa Innes
• LUMSDEN, Rachel Frances
• LUSK, Janet Theodora
• LYALL, David
• LYLE, Agnes, of Kilbarchan
• LYNDSAY, David
• LYON, Jane (Jenny)
• LYON, Mary
• LYON, Sibilla
• M
• MACADAM, Elizabeth
• MCALISTER, Mary Agnes Josephine
• MACARTHUR, Mary Reid
• MACASKILL, Ishbel Margaret
• MACBETH, Ann
• MACBETH, Lady
• MCCALLUM, Janet Hutchinson (Jennie)
• MACCALZEAN, Euphame
• MCCRAE, Georgiana Huntly
• MCCRINDLE, Jennifer (Jenny)
• MACDONALD, Agnes
• MACDONALD, Ann Smith (Annie)
• MCDONALD, Camelia Ethel
• MACDONALD, Cicely
• MACDONALD, Flora
• MACDONALD, Louisa
• MACDONALD, Margaret
• MACDONALD, Margaret, of Sleat
• MACDONALD, Margo Symington
• MACDONALD, Mary
• MCDOUALL, Agnes
• MCDOUGALL, Lily Martha Maud
• MACDOUGALL of MacDougall, Margaret Hope Garnons
• MACFARLANE, Helen, [Howard Morton]
• MACFARLANE, Jessie
• MCGHIE, Margaret
• MACGOUN, Hannah Clarke Preston
• MACGREGOR, Janet Elizabeth (Betty), MD, FRCPath, OBE
• MACGREGOR, Margaret Ann Kinniburgh
• MCIAN, Frances Matilda (Fanny)
• MCILROY, Anne Louise
• MCINNES (or MACINNES), Helen Clark
• MACINTYRE, Sheila
• MCIVER, Margaret (Maggie) (‘The Barras Queen’)
• MCKAY, Ailsa,‡
• MCKAY or MACKAY, Anne
• MACKAY, Barbara, Lady Reay
• MACKAY, Janet, of Bighouse
• MACKAY, Margaret
• MCKECHNIE, Sheila Marshall
• MACKELLAR, Mary
• MACKENZIE, Agnes Mure (Muriel)
• MACKENZIE, Anna, Countess of Balcarres, Countess of Argyll
• MACKENZIE, Barbara, of Kintail
• MACKENZIE, Helen Carruthers
• MACKENZIE, Isabel, Countess of Seaforth
• MACKENZIE, Joan Murray
• MACKENZIE, Katherine
• MACKENZIE, Penelope
• MACKINNON, Doris Livingstone
• MACKINNON, Georgina Russell (Gina)
• MACKINNON, Nan (Nan Eachainn Fhionnlaigh)
• MACKINTOSH, Lady Anne, (‘Colonel Anne’)
• MACKINTOSH, Elizabeth, [Josephine Tey, Gordon Daviot]
• MACLACHLAN, Jessie Niven
• MCLACHLAN (MACLAUGHLAN), Margaret
• MACLAGAN, Christian
• MACLAGAN, Mary Louisa
• MCLAREN, Agnes
• MCLAREN, Priscilla
• MCLEAN, Agnes
• MCLEAN, Agnes
• MCLEHOSE (or MacLehose, M'Lehose, Meiklehose), Agnes (‘Clarinda’)
• MCLELLAN, Sadie
• MACLENNAN, Elizabeth Margaret Ross (Liz),‡
• MACLEOD, Anna MacGillivray
• MACLEOD, Catherine (Kitty) (Ceit NicLeòid)
• MACLEOD, Fiona
• MACLEOD, Flora Louisa Cecilia
• MACLEOD, Margaret, Lady Clanranald (‘Lady Clan’)
• MACLEOD, Mary
• MACMILLAN, Chrystal Jessie,‡
• MCMILLAN, Margaret
• MCMURTRIE, Mary Margaret
• MACNAUGHTAN, Sarah Broom
• MACNEIL, Aithbhreac
• MACNEIL, Flora,‡
• MCNEILL, Florence Marian
• MACNICOL, Elizabeth (Bessie)
• MACPHAIL, Katherine Stewart
• MACPHERSON, Annie Parlane
• MACPHERSON, Margaret Hope
• MACPHERSON, Mary
• MACPHERSON, Mary
• MACQUARIE, Elizabeth Henrietta
• MACRUAIRI, Amy
• MACRUAIRI, Christiana (of the Isles, of Mar)
• MAIR, Sarah Elizabeth Siddons (Sally)
• MAIREARAD NIGHEAN LACHLAINN
• MÀIRI MHÒR NAN ÒRAN, (Màiri nighean Iain Bhàin/Mary MacPherson)
• MÀIRI NIGHEAN ALASDAIR RUAIDH, (Mary MacLeod)
• MAITLAND, Mary (Marie)
• MALCOLM, Lavinia
• MALLOCH, Elizabeth Gilmour,‡
• MANN, Janet (Jean)
• MANN, Janet (Jessie)
• MANN, Kathleen
• MANN, Selma
• MANSON, Mary Jane
• MAR, Annabella, Countess of
• MARGARET Logie, Queen of Scotland
• MARGARET, ‘Maid of Norway’, Queen-designate of Scots
• MARGARET of Denmark, Queen of Scotland
• MARGARET of Scotland, Countess of Kent
• MARGARET Rose, Princess
• MARGARET, Saint, Queen of Scotland
• MARGARET Tudor, Queen of Scotland
• MARIES, The Four: Mary SETON
• MARISHALL, Jean [Jean Marshall]
• MARLEY, Hilda Gertrude (Sister Marie Hilda
• MARSHALL, Henrietta Elizabeth
• MARSHALL, Jean
• MARSHALL, Sheina MacAlister
• MARTIN, Catherine Edith MacAuley
• MARY of Guelders, Queen of Scotland
• MARY of Guise, Queen of Scotland
• MARY, Queen of Scots
• MASON, Elliot Cranston
• MASSON, Rosaline
• MASTERTON, Margaret
• MATHESON, Katherine Bell (Kay),‡
• MATILDA (Edith) of Scotland
• MAUD (Matilda) de Senlis, Queen of Scotland
• MAXWELL, Alice Maude
• MAXWELL, Darcy (Lady Maxwell of Pollok)
• MAXWELL, Jane, Duchess of Gordon
• MAXWELL, Lady Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale
• MAYO, Isabella
• MEECHIE, Helen Guild, CBE
• MEG of Abernethy
• MELVILLE, Elizabeth (Lady Culross)
• MELVILLE, Frances Helen
• MENTEITH, Isabella, Countess of
• MENTEITH, Joanna, Countess of Strathearn
• MICHIE, Janet (Ray), (Baroness Michie of Gallanach)
• MILLAR, Ella Morison
• MILLER, Christina Cruickshank (Chrissie)
• MILLER, Elizabeth (Betsy)
• MILLER, Emily
• MILLER, Lydia Mackenzie Falconer
• MILLIGAN, Jean Callander
• MILNE, Lennox Carruthers
• MINER, Mary Gill (Mae, Pat)
• MITCHEL (or MITCHELSON), Margaret
• MITCHELL, Elizabeth Buchanan
• MITCHELL, Lillias Tait
• MITCHISON, Naomi Mary Margaret
• MITCHISON, Rosalind Mary (Rowy)
• MOAR, May (Marjory)
• MOBERG, Gun Margoth (Gunnie),‡
• MOFFAT, Maggie Liddell
• MONCRIEFF, (Marianne) Isobel
• MONTGOMERIE, Margaret
• MONTGOMERIE, Norah Mary
• MONTGOMERIE, Susanna, Countess of Eglinton
• MONTROSE, Violet, Duchess of
• MOON, Lorna
• MOORE (or MUIR), Jane (Jean)
• MOORHEAD, Ethel Agnes Mary
• MORICE, Margaret
• MORRIS, Margaret Eleanor
• MORRISON, Agnes Brysson Inglis (Nancy), [N. Brysson Morrison, Christine Strathern]
• MORRISON, Euphemia Flora Nicholson (Effie)
• MOUAT, Elizabeth (Betty),‡
• MOXON, May
• MUIR, Wilhelmina Johnston (Willa),‡
• MUNRO, Ailie
• MUNRO, Anna Gillies Macdonald,‡
• MURE, Elizabeth, of Caldwell
• MURRAY, Annabella, Countess of Mar, [Lady Minny]
• MURRAY, Anne, Lady Halkett
• MURRAY, Catherine, Countess of Dunmore
• MURRAY, Lady Charlotte
• MURRAY, Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart
• MURRAY, Eunice Guthrie
• MURRAY, Flora
• MURRAY, Frances Porter
• MURRAY, Helen Nicolas (Nicky)
• MURRAY, Noreen Elizabeth
• MURRAY, Sarah
• MYLES, Margaret Fraser (Maggie)
• MYLNE, Margaret
• N
• NAIRNE, Carolina, Lady
• NAIRNE, Margaret, 2nd Lady Nairne
• NAN EACHAINN FHIONNLAIGH
• NASMYTH, Jane
• NEIL, Annie Innes Clydesdale (Andy),‡
• NEILL, Elizabeth Grace
• NEWBERY, Jessie
• NEWBIGIN, Marion Isabel
• NEWSTEAD, Isabel
• NEWTON, Janet, of Dalcove
• NICHOL, Elizabeth Pease
• ‘NICNEVEN’ (or Nicnevin, Nicniven)
• NITHSDALE, Winifred, Countess of
• NOBLE, Mary Jessie McDonald
• NORGROVE, Linda,‡
• O
• O'DONNELL, Finola (Inion Dubh, ‘the dark daughter’)
• OGILVY, Marion, lady of Melgund
• OLIPHANT, Carolina, Lady Nairne [Mrs Bogan of Bogan]
• OLIPHANT, Margaret
• OLIVER, Cordelia McIntyre
• ORABILIS (or ORABILA), Countess of Mar
• O'ROURKE, Mary [Master Joe Petersen]
• ORR, Christine Grant Millar
• OSTHRYð
• OWENS, Agnes
• P
• PAGAN, Isobel
• PANMURE, Margaret, Countess of
• PARKER, Agnes Miller
• PATERSON, Grace Chalmers
• PATERSON-BROWN, June
• PATON, Fenella
• PATON, Mary Ann
• PEARCE, Isabella Bream [Lily Bell]
• PEARSON, Alison (Pierson)
• PEEBLES, Barbara
• PENNY, Margaret
• PHILLIPS, Caroline Agnes Isabella
• PHILLIPS, Mary Elizabeth
• PICKFORD, (Lillian) Mary
• PIRIE, Jane
• PIRIE, Mary
• PIRRET, Ruth
• PORTER, Jane
• PULLINGER, Dorothée Aurélie Marianne
• Q
• QUAILE, (Ida) Barbara Helen
• QUIBELL, Annie Abernethie,‡
• R
• RADCLIFFE, Mary Ann
• RAE, Jane
• RAEGNMAELD
• RAFFLES, Frances Rachel (Franki)
• RAGNHILD SIMUNSDATTER
• RAINE, Kathleen Jessie
• RALPHSON, Mary (Trooper Mary)
• RAMSAY, Christian (Christina), Countess of Dalhousie
• RANDOLPH, Agnes (Black Agnes of Dunbar), Countess of Dunbar and March
• RANSFORD, Teresa Mary (Tessa)
• RAPHAEL, Sylvia
• READ, Katharine (Catherine)
• REDPATH, Anne
• REDPATH, Jean,‡
• REEKIE, Stella Jane
• REID, Marion
• RENTON, Barbara
• RENTON, Dorothy Graham
• REOCH, Elspeth
• REYNOLDS, Doris Livesey
• RIACH, Nancy Anderson Long
• RITA
• RITCHIE, Marjorie
• RITSON, Muriel
• ROBERTS, Jean Barr McDonald
• ROBERTSON, Anne Strachan
• ROBERTSON, Christina
• ROBERTSON, Edith Anne
• ROBERTSON, Hannah
• ROBERTSON, Muriel,‡
• ROBERTSON, Regina Christina (Jeannie)
• ROBINSON, Annot
• ROONEY, Mary Gowran (Maureen)
• ROSE, Elizabeth, of Kilravock
• ROSS, Elizabeth Jane
• ROSS, Katharine
• ROSS, Marion Amelia Spence
• ROTHIEMAY, Katherine, Lady
• ROUGH, Alison
• ROYDS, Mabel Alington
• RUDDICK, Edith
• RUSHFORTH, Margaret Winifred
• RUSSELL, Jessie
• RUTHERFORD, Alison
• RUTHERFORD, Mistress
• RUTHVEN, Katherine, Lady Glenorchy
• RYND (or RHIND), Jonet (Janet)
• S
• SADLER, Flora Munro
• ST CLAIR-ERSKINE, Lady Millicent Fanny, Duchess of Sutherland
• SAMPSON, Agnes
• SAMPSON, Margery Fletcher,‡
• SANDISON, Janet
• SANDISON, May
• SAVAGE, Agnes Yewande
• SAWYER, Mairi Thyra
• SAXBY, Jessie Margaret
• SCÁTHACH (Scáthach of Skye)
• SCHAW, Janet
• SCHIREHAM, Marjory de
• SCOT, Elizabeth
• SCOTA
• SCOTT, Agnes Neill
• SCOTT, Anna, Duchess of Buccleuch
• SCOTT, Edith Agnes Kathleen
• SCOTT, Isabella Mary
• SCOTT, Jean (Janet), Lady Ferniehurst
• SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, Agnes Millar (Ann)
• SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITALS (SWH) for Foreign Service‡
• SHARP, Elizabeth Amelia
• SHAW, Christian, of Bargarran
• SHAW, Clarice Marion
• SHAW, Helen Brown
• SHAW, Margaret Fay,‡
• SHAW, Winifred Mason (Winnie)
• SHEARER, Moira (Lady Kennedy)
• SHEPHERD, Anna (Nan)
• SHEPHERD, Lady Mary
• SHEPPARD, Catherine Wilson (Katherine
• SHIEL, Isabella (Tibbie)
• SHIRE, Helena Mary Mennie
• SHORT, Maria Theresa
• SIDDONS, Harriet
• SIDGWICK, Eleanor Mildred (Nora)
• SIEVWRIGHT, Margaret Home
• SILEAS NIGHEAN MHIC RAGHNAILL (Sìleas na Ceapaich, Cicely MacDonald)
• SIMON, Edith Margarete
• SINCLAIR, Catherine
• SINCLAIR, Isabella Janet (Bell)
• SINCLAIR, Margaret Anne [Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds]
• SKEA, Isabella Low
• SKELTON, Pamela (Pam) Dora,‡
• SKENE, Lilias
• SKINNER, Mabel (Mabs)
• SKINNIDER, Margaret (Ní Scineadóra, Máighréad),‡
• SLESSOR, Mary Mitchell
• SMALL, Ann Hunter (Annie)
• SMITH, Ann Lorrain (Annie)
• SMITH, Anne Glen Millar
• SMITH, Christina
• SMITH, [Elizabeth] Dorothea Chalmers
• SMITH, Janet Buchanan Adam
• SMITH, Madeleine Hamilton
• SMYTH, Jessica Piazzi (Jessie)
• SNODGRASS, Catherine Park
• SNOWDON, The Princess Margaret Rose
• SO, Pamela Hung
• SOMERVILLE, Euphemia Gilchrist
• SOMERVILLE, Mary
• SOMERVILLE, Mary
• SOULE, Caroline Augusta
• SPARK, Muriel Sarah
• SPEIRS, Vera Muriel
• SPENCE, Catherine Helen
• SPENCE, Catherine Stafford
• SPOTTISWOODE, Alicia Anne (Lady John Scott)
• STEEL, Flora Annie
• STEIN, Grace
• STEPHEN, Jessie
• STEVEN, Helen,‡
• STEVENSON, Flora Clift
• STEVENSON, Louisa
• STEWART, Eliza, (later Isla)
• STEWART, Elizabeth, Lady Lovat, Countess of Lennox and March, Countess of Arran
• STEWART, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, Electress Palatine
• STEWART, Helen D'Arcy
• STEWART, Henrietta, Countess and Marchioness of Huntly
• STEWART, Isabella (Belle)
• STEWART, Lucy
• STEWART, Margaret
• STEWART, Margaret
• STEWART, Margaret, of Ochiltree
• STEWART, Margaret Enid Crichton,‡
• STEWART, Mary
• STEWART, Mary Florence Elinor (Lady Stewart)
• STEWART, Murdina (Ena) Lamont
• STEWART, Olga Margaret
• STEWART SMITH, Janet Eliza (Jane)
• STEWART-MURRAY, Lady Dorothea
• STEWART-MURRAY, Lady Evelyn
• STIRK (STARK), Hellen (Ellen, Elena)
• STIRLING, Emma Maitland
• STIRLING, Jane Wilhelmina
• STIRLING GRAHAM, Clementina
• STOPES, Charlotte Carmichael [Leitea Reseda]
• STOPES, Marie Charlotte Carmichael
• STRATHERN, Christine
• STRATHIE, Dame Lesley Ann
• STRONG, Rebecca
• STUART, Lady Louisa
• SULTER, Maud,‡
• SUTHERLAND, Anne Bryson
• SUTHERLAND, Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland
• SUTHERLAND, Margaret Sinclair (Greta)
• SUTHERLAND, Mary Elizabeth
• SUTHERLAND, Millicent, Duchess of
• SUTHERLAND, Stella Campbell
• SWAIN, Margaret Helen
• SWAN, Annie Shepherd, [Annie S. Swan, David Lyall]
• SWANKIE, Emily Elizabeth
• SYMON, Mary,‡
• T
• TAIT, Margaret,‡
• TAIT BLACK, Janet
• TANEU (also Thenew)
• TANNER, Ann Ailsa Louise
• TAYLER, Helen Agnes Henrietta (Hetty)
• TAYLOUR (or TAYLOR), Jane Elizabeth
• TEISSIER DU CROS, Janet
• TEMPLETON, Elizabeth Anne
• TENNANT, Hon. Emma Christina
• TEY, Josephine
• THENEW
• THOMSON, Elizabeth
• THOMSON, Emily Charlotte
• THOMSON, Helen Mitchell
• THOMSON, Margaret Henderson
• TOD, Isabella Maria Susan
• TOLLEMACHE, Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll
• TOLMIE, Frances
• TOMNAT
• TOWARD, Agnes Reid
• TOWSER
• TRAIL, Ann Agnes (Agnes Xavier)
• TRAIL, Susan (Susanna),‡
• TRAQUAIR, Phoebe Anna
• TRIDUANA
• TROTTER, Menie
• TROUT, Jennie (or Jenny) Kidd
• TURNER, Annie Helen Nairn,‡
• TWEEDSMUIR, Priscilla, Lady
• TYTLER, Ann Fraser
• TYTLER, Sarah
• U
• URE, Joan
• URE, Mary
• URQUHART, Margery
• URQUHART, Mary Sinclair (Molly)
• V
• VAKIL, Merbai Ardesir,‡
• VALENTINE, Jessie
• VEITCH, Marion
• VICTORIA, (Alexandrina Victoria)
• VIOLANTE, Signora Mariana
• W
• WADDELL, Roberta Johanna (Bertha)
• WALDIE, Charlotte Anne
• WALFORD, Lucy Bethia
• WALKER, Ethel
• WALKER, Helen
• WALKER, Marion
• WALKER, Lady Mary (aka Lady Mary Hamilton)
• WALKER, Mary Lily
• WALKINSHAW, Clementina, (Clementine), (aka Countess of Albestroff)
• WALLACE, Eglinton
• WALLACE, Grace Jane
• WALLACE-DUNLOP, Marion
• WALTON, Cecile
• WARD, Sarah
• WARENNE, Ada de
• WARRISTON, Jean, Lady
• WATERSTON, Jane Elizabeth
• WATKINS, Meta Gladys (Margaret)
• WATSON, Alexandra Mary Chalmers (Mona)
• WATSON, Elizabeth (Bessie)
• WATSON, Janet Vida
• WATSON, Margaret Alexandra Hannan
• WATT, Christian
• WATT, Eilidh (Helen)
• WATTS, Mary Seton
• WEIR, Beatrix
• WEIR, Jean (aka Grizel)
• WEIR, Molly (Mary)
• WEIR, Sharman Elizabeth
• WELLS, Annie Katharine (Nannie Katharin)
• WELLS, Malvina
• WEMYSS, Lady Margaret
• WEST, Rebecca
• WHISKEY, Nancy (Anne Alexandra Young Wilson)
• WHITE, Freda
• WHYTE, Betsy (or Bessie)
• WHYTE, Helen Kathleen Ramsay (Kath)
• WIGHAM, Eliza
• WIGHAM, Elizabeth
• WILKIE, Annot Erskine
• WILLIAMS, Gertrude Alice Meredith
• WILLIAMSON, Euphemia (Effie)
• WILLIAMSON, Isabel
• WILSON, Margaret
• WISHART, Sylvia
• WOLFE MURRAY, Stephanie Vivian,‡
• WOLFF, Sulammith (Sula)
• WOOD, Lucky
• WOOD, Wendy (Gwendolen, Gwendoline) Emily
• WOOD ALLEN, Janet (Jenny)
• WORMALD, Jennifer Mary (Jenny),‡
• WRIGHT, Bessie
• WRIGHT, Christian Edington Guthrie
• WRIGHT, Frances (Fanny),‡
• Y
• YOUNG, Issobell
• YOUNG, Lorna
• YOUNG, Mary Helen
• Z
• ZAVARONI, Lena Hilda
• ZINKEISEN, Doris Clare
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