Willa Muir was particularly vocal in the emancipation and inclusion of women in University life. As a member of the…
Katherine Whitehorn, CBE, was a renowned journalist and author. In 1982, she was elected as rector of the University of St Andrews…
Sue Innes was a feminist campaigner, journalist, and academic who helped establish St Andrews as a centre for second-wave feminism…
Saba Douglas-Hamilton is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist, television presenter, and documentary film producer. She was born to an English zoologist…
Frances Helen Melville was a suffragist and lifelong campaigner for women’s education. Melville graduated from the University of Edinburgh in…
Born in Aberdeenshire in 1840, Louisa Lumsden was the youngest of seven children. Lumsden had a relatively interesting education, starting school…
Kathleen MacIver was the first woman to chair a department at the University of St Andrews. Despite facing prevailing negative attitudes, she…
Adeline Herbert Campbell, who was one of eight sisters, all of whom attended the University of St Andrews, lived in University Hall from 1905…
Margaret Fairlie was born in 1891 on West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. She studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and University…