Dame Anne Margaret Bryans DBE DStJ FRSM (née Gilmour; 29 October 1909 – 21 April 2004) was a British humanitarian and healthcare administrator, remembered as an "indomitable doyenne of the caring profession.
[2] Anne Margaret Gilmour was born at 9 Atholl Crescent in Edinburgh, Scotland on 29 October 1909, the eldest child of the Rt Hon.
She was privately educated at Montrave, the Gilmour family estate near Leven, Fife, by a Belgian governess and later studied at the Sorbonne.
[3] Dame Anne Bryans died at Lundin Links in Fife, Scotland, on 21 April 2004, aged 94.
The couple had one child, Lieutenant Commander John Patrick Gilmour Bryans RN FRGS, born in 1933.