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Profession: Photographer Campaigner against violence against women Philosopher

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…

Frances Helen Melville was a suffragist and lifelong campaigner for women's education. Melville graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1897 with a first-class Master of Arts in Philosophy. She stayed on as a tutor for 3 years before working as…

Patron of photography, with husband Lord Kinnaird

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Bearded man dressed as old woman, with a basket over his arm and walking stick in the other hand.
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