Anna Lindsay (activist)

Anna Lindsay (née Dunlop; 24 June 1845 – 1 March 1903) was a Scottish women's activist.

Lindsay was born in Edinburgh in 1845, the eldest daughter of Eliza Esther (née Murray) and Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop, an MP and lawyer.

She was the Vice-Chair of the Association, and when, in 1891, it merged with other organisations to create the Scottish Women's Liberal Federation (SWLF) she became its Chair.

[1] From 1901-3, she was a member of the Scottish Christian Union, independent but affiliated to the British Women's Temperance Association.

Their daughter Susan married the medieval historian F. M. Powicke and their eldest son was Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, who became a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.