Edith Florence Boyle Macalister

MacALISTER, Edith Florence Boyle. b. Dublin, 1873; d. Cambridge, 27 November 1950. She was the daughter of the Professor of Anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and the sister of Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister* (note the spelling of the surname: it changed to MacAlister on her marriage). She was educated in Dublin and Cambridge (her father had moved to Cambridge as Professor of Anatomy in 1883). She became a Primary School teacher. In 1895 she married a doctor who was a distant relative, Donald MacAlister (1854-1934), who became a long-serving Chairman of the General Medical Council, and a distinguished Principal of Glasgow University (1907-29). Lady MacAlister, as she became when her...