The Ladies 
Jane Haining, a Scottish martyr to Nazism, was a member of the Church of Scotland mission to the Jews in Hungary. She refused to abandon her Budapest Jewish girl charges when the Nazis invaded Hungary, and was gassed with them at Auschwitz.
Edinburgh University takes the credit of being the first to admit women as medical students in 1869.
Britain’s leading woman song writer was surely Lady Nairne, authoress of “Caller Herrin’,” “Will Ye No Come Back Again”, “The Auld Hoose”, “The Laird o’Cockpen”, etc.
The last Empress of the French, the Empress Eugenie, was of Scottish descent through her mother, Kirkpatrick.
Marie Correli was the pen-name of a Perthshire-born authoress, Mary McKay.
Mary Slessor, missionary, a Scotswoman. For her work in Yugoslavia the name of the heroic Dr. Elsie Inglis is revered there.
Marmalade was invented by a Scotswoman, Mrs Keillor of Dundee!
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