16 Facts About Louisa Lumsden

Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden was a Scottish pioneer of female education.

Louisa Lumsden returned as the first female resident and tutor to Girton in 1873.

Louisa Lumsden is credited with introducing lacrosse to St Leonards.

In 1908, Louisa Lumsden was asked to become the President of the Aberdeen branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

Louisa Lumsden returned to live with her family in Glenbogie, Aberdeenshire in 1857.

Louisa Lumsden attended classes of the Edinburgh Ladies Education Association from 1868 to 1869, with lectures by University of Edinburgh professors, though women students were still not awarded full degrees.

Louisa Lumsden was one of the first five students to be taught at Hitchin and one of the first three female students to sit unofficial University of Cambridge Tripos examinations in Lent term 1873, the others being Rachel Cook and Sarah Woodhead.

Louisa Lumsden is recorded as a student at Girton from 1869 to 1872, a tutor from 1873 to 1874 and recipient of the Classical Tripos in 1892.

Louisa Lumsden resigned her post as tutor after conflicts with Emily Davies over neglect of student welfare.

Louisa Lumsden resigned as head in January 1882, citing ill health.

University Hall, the first residential hall for women students in Scotland, was founded at St Andrews University in 1896; Louisa Lumsden was appointed its first warden.

In 1908 Louisa Lumsden accepted an invitation to become president of the Aberdeen Suffrage Association.

Louisa Lumsden was a non-militant suffragist and provided a caravan called "Curlew", used by campaigners to travel about the country.

Louisa Lumsden was the one who planted The Suffrage Oak in Glasgow, which was chosen as tree of the year in 2015.

Under a Girton College charter, Louisa Lumsden was made a life governor in 1924.

The Louisa Lumsden Club is named in her honour; its members are current female students at the University of St Andrews, its objective charitable fundraising.