Mrs Ellen (Nellie) McIntyre Hunter nee Galbraith
Died: 1933
Relatives: Husband – James T Hunter (married 1886); Brother – William Gunn Galbraith, WS; Father – James Galbraith, Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire
Positions
One of the founding members of the Glasgow Vigilance Association [National Vigilance Association of Scotland] and the Association’s first Secretary from 1911-1926.1
One of the first two women to serve on the board of directors of the Glasgow Lock Hospital2
One of the first six women to be appointed a Justice of the Peace for Glasgow3
Member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Executive Committee4
Chairman of the Scottish Women’s Hospital Committee, she travelled with Dr Marian Erskine to facilitate the wrapping up of the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Belgrade in 19215
Campaigner for the setting up in Scotland of a Committee of Inquiry into criminal assaults on children6
Awards
Received Order of St Sava IV from Serbia for her work as chairman of the Scottish Women’s Hospital7
Awarded the Royal Red Cross8
1. ‘Mahood, Linda: Policing Gender, Class and Family in Britain, 1800-1945’ (London: Taylor & Francis, 1995), p82
2. Obituary, The Scotsman, 23 March 1933
3. Ibid
4. Leneman, Leah: In the service of life: the story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1994), p5
5. Ibid, p207
6. Coatbridge Express, 29 October 1924
7. Obituary, The Scotsman, 23 March 1933
8. Ibid