Anne Muirhead Mathams FEIS (6 May 1913 – 21 February 2011) was a Scottish educationist, innovator and disability rights activist.
[1] Mathams attended St George's School for Girls in Edinburgh, and trained as a teacher at the Jersey Ladies' College and Moray House.
[2] While training as a teacher, Mathams found an interest in working with young children with physical disabilities.
She became the first head mistress at the Westerlea School in 1948, in charge of a residential programme established by the Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics.
[2] Mathams died on 21 February 2011, aged 97 years, at the Colinton Care Home in Edinburgh.