Dr Flora Murray, whose image appears on the £100 Bank of Scotland note, founded the Women’s Hospital for Children in London and the Women’s Hospital Corp.
Born in Dumfries in 1869, the medic received a CBE in recognition of her work during World War One.
Now the note bearing her image has finished third in a contest to find the world’s most beautiful banknotes.
Dr Murray founded the Women’s Hospital for Children in London in 1912 with her partner, Louisa Garrett-Anderson.
It provided healthcare for the children of factory and shop workers, who were low paid so accessing health care was difficult.
When war broke out in 1914, they founded the Women’s Hospital Corps, a feminist organisation, and opened two successful military hospitals in France, staffed entirely by female suffragettes.
In 1915, the British War Office provided them with a premises in London where they set up Endell Street Military Hospital, the first hospital in the UK established for men by female medical professionals.
Source : BBC
