Taken from today's BBC news Tuesday, 3 June 2008: A doctor who has been described as Scotland's Florence Nightingale is to have a tribute in her honour unveiled in France. Dr Elsie Inglis, who was born in India in 1864, founded the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service in 1915. Elsie's father worked in the civil service before her family moved to Scotland and settled in Edinburgh.She gained her MD at Edinburgh University in 1899 before establishing the first female-run maternity hospital in Scotland. She became a staunch advocate of women's rights, and helped found the Scottish Women's Suffrage Federation. After war broke out in 1914, she had the idea of sending teams of women medics to the front line. Elsie was undeterred by opposition from the War Office, who told her to stay home and knit, and despatched two units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals to France. Within months of the war breaking out, her Abbaye de Royaumont hospital, containing some 200 beds, was in place. (snip) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7432094.stm or use tiny url: http://tiny.cc/qr97l I'd love to know if she's one of a lister's family - a great gal;-) Ruth in Brum (Birmingham, England - very wet!)