Katherine Whitehorn was a British journalist and columnist born on March 2nd 1928. She graduated from Newham College in Cambridge, where she worked as a columnist for the Observer from 1960 to 1996. She became known for her wit, humour and observance…
Bell Pettigrew was educated at the University of Glasgow and later the University of Edinburgh to continue his study of medicine. He was an outstanding scholar of anatomy and appointed Croonian lecturer at the Royal Society of London in 1860.
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Agnes Blackadder was a medical doctor born on December 4th 1875 in Dundee. She became the first female graduate in 1895, where she compressed her studies by taking subjects concurrently, which allowed her to graduate ahead of her cohort. She then…
Frances Melville was a promoter of higher education for women in Scotland and suffragist, born on October 11th, 1873. She became one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh in 1892, after the Universities (Scotland) Act of…
Katherine Whitehorn was a British journalist and columnist born on March 2nd, 1928. She graduated from Newham College in Cambridge, where she worked as a columnist for the Observer from 1960 to 1996. She became known for her wit, humour, and…
Sue Innes was a journalist, writer, teacher, and feminist campaigner born on May 4th, 1948, in Dorset. In 1970, she enrolled at the University of St Andrews studying English and Philosophy. She became the editor of the student newspaper Aien within…
Louisa Lumsden was a Scottish pioneer of female education born on December 31st, 1840, in Aberdeen. Lumsden was the founding headmistress of St Leonards School in St Andrews, which was the first school for girls in Scotland modelled after English…
Agnes Blackadder was a Scottish medical doctor born on December 4th, 1875, in Dundee. She became the first female graduate in 1895, where she compressed her studies by taking subjects concurrently, which allowed her to graduate ahead of her cohort.…
Margaret Fairlie was born in 1891 in Angus. She matriculated at University College, Dundee and the University of St Andrews School, where she graduated and obtained her medical degree in 1920. Following this, she joined the staff at the Dundee Royal…
Ettie Stewart Steele was a chemist born on October 5th, 1890, in Dunfermline. She matriculated at the University of St Andrews in 1908, where she received an M.A. in 1912, a BSc in 1914 and then a PhD in 1919.
She was the first female candidate to…