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Page 231 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1

Moir, Ethel, 1916, Document
Page 231 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1
Page 231 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1
Page 231 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1
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Page 231 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1
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Newspaper cutting:

Under the auspices of the Lord Mayor, the London memorial to Dr Elsie Inglis, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign
Service, was inaugurated at a largely attended meeting at the Mansion-House this afternoon. The platform party included the Earl of
Selborne, Lady Frances Balfour, the Serbian Minister, and Commander Locker Lampson. The Executive Committee of the London units
of the Scottish Women's Hospitals are appealing for a fund to establish a chair of medicine in the University of Belgrade after the war, as a memorial to Dr Elsie Inglis. Lord Selborne spoke of the appropriateness of connecting a chair of medicine in the capital of Serbia with the life work of that noble lady, the last three years of whose life were spent for the Serbian people. Lady Frances Balfour, who is now engaged writing the life of Dr Elsie Inglis, referred in an appreciative and eloquent speech to the remarkable qualities of head and heart which characterised her. She had a mind clear, consistent, strenuous. She knew what she wanted, and she always achieved her object. She had also what was, perhaps, rare - the power of delegating authority, trusting people, and getting the work done; and, above all, she had to a great degree faith, courage, and patience -
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1916
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20.4 x 16.0 cm
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection