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Norah Neilson Gray (16 June 1882 – 27 May 1931) was a Scottish artist of the Glasgow School. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy while still a student and then showed works regularly at the Paris ...
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Evelina Haverfield (9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920) was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early part of the 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage o ...
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Rotha Beryl Lintorn Lintorn-Orman (7 February 1895 – 10 March 1935) was the founder of the British Fascisti, the first avowedly fascist movement to appear in British politics.
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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published ...
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Alice Hutchison was a British doctor who served in the Balkan and First World Wars. She was one of the first women to lead a war-time hospital unit.
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Kathleen Innes (15 January 1883 – 27 March 1967) was a British Quaker, educator, writer and pacifist, who served as the joint chair of the international headquarters for the Women's International League ...
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Vera Louise Holme, also known as Vera 'Jack' Holme, (29 August 1881 – 1 January 1969) was a British actress and a suffragette. She was known as the Pankhursts' chauffeur.
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Olive May Kelso King (30 June 1885 – 1 November 1958) was an adventurer and mountain climber. During World War I she drove ambulances for the Scottish Women's Hospitals and later the Serbian Army ...
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Commandant the Honourable Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant (31 January 1869 – 12 October 1945) was a British philanthropist and supporter of local government who served as the second commandant of the Women's ...
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Dame Anne Louise McIlroy DBE FRCOG (11 November 1874 – 8 February 1968), known as Louise McIlroy, was a distinguished and honoured Irish-born British physician, specialising in obstetrics and ...
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Elsie Maud Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor, pioneering surgeon, inspiring teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, and the first ...
Scottish suffragist and wartime volunteer organiser
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Muriel Craigie, OBE (1889 – 1971) was a leading Scottish suffragist, honoured by two nations as a major volunteer organiser in both World Wars, and a 'noted educationist' during local authority education ...
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Olive Smith (1880 – 5 October 1916) was a masseuse, physical training instructor in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (SWH) in Serbia in World War I. She died of malaria, within two months ...
World War I Scottish Women's Hospital administrator, suffragist and war poet
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Mary H J Henderson (born 1874 – 6 November 1938) was an administrator with Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the Balkans in World War I, earning five medals. She founded ...
New Zealand anaesthetist and WWI unit head (1880–1962)
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Mary Alice Blair (1880–1962) was a New Zealand doctor who organised hospitals in Malta, Serbia and Salonika during the First World War. She was in charge of Serbian hospital evacuation to Corsica where ...
English feminist, activist, and educationist (1854-1942)
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Harriet Christina Newcomb (20 May 1854 – 15 April 1942) was an English feminist, activist, and educationist. She was a proponent of progressive education and improved teacher training, in both Britain ...
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Edith Hacon (1875 - 1952) also known as Rhyllis Llewellyn Hacon, later Mrs "Amaryllis" Robichaud, was a leading Scottish suffragist from Dornoch, a World War One nursing volunteer, as well as an inter ...
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Lilian Violet Cooper (11 August 1861 - 18 August 1947 Brisbane) was a British-born medical practitioner in Queensland, Australia. She was the first female doctor registered in Queensland.