Belle Patrick

Belle Hay Patrick (22 August 1895 – 1972) was one of the first three women to become a lawyer in Scotland.

However, despite qualifying in 1925, she never practiced as a lawyer, but rather focused her attention on missionary work in Algiers.

[1] However, at the insistence of her mother she found work with the legal firm of Mackintosh and Watson in the neighbouring village of Pittenweem.

[2] In 1924, before qualifying as a lawyer, Patrick met Lilias Trotter in St Andrews.

The following day, she booked her passage to Algiers where Trotter had become bedridden.