Elizabeth Georgeson

[1] Her father was a Minister of the United Free Church, so the family later moved to Edinburgh, where she undertook her secondary education at Canaan Park College.

[3] Georgeson was 21 when she began her career at the University of Edinburgh in 1916,[4] over the age of majority and legally an adult, so able to make her own decisions about her education.

She may have benefited from the fact that during the First World War, many women were able to take on new roles, and access fields such as engineering.

And the moral of all this, as the Duchess would say, is that we should all work at our maths, it is vitally important to engineers, both directly and indirectly as a brain tonic: and my limited experience of girl engineers leads me to think that we are rather apt to neglect this branch of our craft.

"[7] Once Georgeson graduated, she became an articled pupil to a surveyor, hoping to qualifying as a Civil Engineer.