Elsie Quinlan (3 December 1914 – 9 November 1952), religious name Mary Aidan, was a Dominican sister who was killed in Duncan Village in 1952, by a mob of ANC rioters.
After these assignments, in 1949 she was she was sent to Duncan Village, Eastern Cape to found a clinic at the St Peter Claver Mission in that township.
[4] Dr. Aidan always seemed to delight in being called out to a native hut and applying her obstetrical knowledge to a difficult case, kneeling on a mud floor.
On 9 November 1952 the local ANC branch organised a protest meeting as part of Defiance Campaign, the police used batons, bayonets and gunfire to disperse the crowd.
It is thought that Sr Aidan, having heard of the casualties due to the police action, drove into Bantu Street, near the site of the meeting to help treat those injured.