"History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket." [Mrs Lintott, "The History Boys" by Alan Bennett]
The final member in this series of posts on the members of the Ladies Committee is perhaps the most colourful and fascinating – and a tad mysterious - with a remarkable career that took her not just to South Africa, but also to Canada, America, Germany, Italy and Korea where she became the personal physician to the Emperor.
She was Dr Ella Campbell Scarlett , another controversial early female doctor with an aristocratic lineage, being the daughter of the third Baron Abinger, William Scarlett , and his American wife, Helen Magruder, daughter of Commodore George Allan Macgruder of the U.S. Navy.