1. Elizabeth Haldane was the sister of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane and John Scott Haldane, and became the first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland in 1920.
14 Facts About Elizabeth Haldane
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Elizabeth Haldane was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1918.
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Elizabeth Haldane was born on 27 May 1862 at 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.
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Elizabeth Haldane's father was Robert Haldane of Cloan House near Auchterarder, Perthshire and her mother was Mary Elizabeth Sanderson.
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Elizabeth Haldane was educated by a succession of tutors and visiting schoolmasters.
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Elizabeth Haldane wanted to go to college but it was too expensive and she was an only daughter tied to her widowed mother.
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Elizabeth Haldane took nursing courses in the 1880s and subsequently became involved in establishing the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 1908 onwards.
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Elizabeth Haldane became a manager of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary around 1901 onwards.
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Elizabeth Haldane was intimate with royalty such as Queen Alexandra and was a personal friend of literary figures such as Matthew Arnold and George Meredith.
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Elizabeth Haldane had the stiff rather highbrow Victorian face one knew so well from pictures, but he was delightful to me.
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Elizabeth Haldane accepted "the restriction of women's activities to the inside, the personal, the domestic" whereas Mitchison considered women to be equally free to pursuit their lives outside the home.
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Elizabeth Haldane died on 24 December 1937 at St Margaret's Hospital, Auchterarder.
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Elizabeth Haldane was an accomplished translator and put her considerable talents to use translating works of philosophy, including treatises by Descartes and Hegel.
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Elizabeth Haldane learned, what all men learn in time, that there is no sphere of life in which the contradictions of mankind can be got rid of; everywhere alike is there error and deception: if we accept what is set before us by custom and example, we shall certainly go wrong.