Anne Geddes Gilchrist OBE FSA[1] (8 December 1863 – 24 July 1954)[2][3] was a British folk song collector.
[4][5] Although less well-known than her London-based counterparts, her expertise was acknowledged by Cecil Sharp, Lucy Broadwood, and John Masefield.
[4] After meeting Sabine Baring-Gould she became involved with folk music and joined the editorial board of the Folk-Song Society in 1906.
[8] In the very first edition of the Journal of the Folk-Song Society she wrote an article on the song Long Lankin.
Following the discovery of a medieval sculpted stone in Cumberland, she was admitted to the Society of Antiquaries in 1935, at the age of 70.