Anna Lindsay (''

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'' Dunlop; 24 June 1845 – 1 March 1903) was a Scottish women's activist. She was one of the founders of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women and her name was said to be synonymous with the women's movement in Scotland. She was the first chairperson of the

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Biography

Lindsay was born in

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in 1845, the eldest daughter of Eliza Esther (née Murray) and

Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop (27 December 1798 – 1 September 1870) was a Scottish church advocate and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) ...

, an MP and lawyer. She was educated at home, and went on to be one of the first students at the University Classes for Women in Edinburgh where she impressed her professors. The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started after a suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell by Professor John Nichol in 1868 to start lectures for women. Lindsay was one of its founders.K. D. Reynolds, ‘Lindsay , Anna (1845–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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(SWLF) she became its Chair. It was only her health that prevented her from continuing in that role after 1899. From 1901-3, she was a member of the Scottish Christian Union, independent but affiliated to the

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. She also joined the

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Personal life

On the 8 October 1872, Lindsay married the academic

Thomas Martin Lindsay Thomas Martin Lindsay FRSE (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow. He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including ''Luther and the German Reformation'' (1900), and ''A Hi ...

and moved to live with him in Glasgow. Together they had five children, two daughters and three sons. Their daughter Susan married the medieval historian

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and their eldest son was Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, who became a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the

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, and

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of the

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Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker
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at oxforddnb.com(subscription site), accessed 20 June 2013 In 1903, Lindsay died in

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in Glasgow.

References

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