Florence Marian McNeill, MBE (26 March 1885 – 22 February 1973) was a Scottish folklorist, author, editor, suffragist and political activist.
Her sister Mary Lauchline McNeill became a doctor, and a suffragist and served in the World War One Scottish Women's Hospital.
She returned to the UK in 1913 and worked initially as an organiser for the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies, and later as secretary for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene in London where she remained until 1917.
[1] After that, she moved back to Edinburgh and started work as a researcher for the Scottish National Dictionary, and by 1929 she had become principal assistant on the project.
This treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief covers both the principal national festivals as well as many local ones and was the result of a lifetime of research.