Helen Douglas Irvine

Helen Florence Douglas-Irvine was born in 1880, the daughter of Walter Douglas-Irvine and Anne Frances (née Lloyd), granddaughter of Lord William Robert Keith Douglas (the younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry).

[1] She was one of the first female graduates of St Andrews University[2] having read History, near her family home Grangemuir, near Pittenweem in Fife.

Douglas-Irvine wrote seven novels, four books of history, and at least two book-length translations.

[4] She was a clerk with the French Red Cross during World War I.

[5] Douglas Irvine died on 22 May 1946 from pneumonia in Chile, while researching a book on early Spanish colonial life.