Elizabeth Barr

Elizabeth Brown Barr (2 October 1905 – 23 June 1995) was a Scottish minister.

She was the first woman to become a Presbyterian minister and the first female moderator of a general assembly of a Scottish church.

Her father was a minister who would lead the United Free Church of Scotland and become a member of parliament.

At a time when women under 30 were not allowed to vote, the meeting agreed that "any member of the Church in full communion shall be eligible to hold any office within the Church"; the path was open for a woman to be a practising minister.

[4] She was accepted as a candidate and she returned to Glasgow University to study the New Testament and to become a Bachelor of Divinity.