Elizabeth Haldane

Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane LLD was a Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, and social welfare and nursing administrator. She managed the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1901 and established the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 1908. She became the first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland in 1920. She was awarded an LLD from St Andrews University in 1906 and was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1918.

Occupation

philosopher, writer, justice of the peace, biographer

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

May 27, 1862

Died

December 24, 1937