Helen Nicolson (child psychiatrist)

[2] They lived near the Himalayas but she was sent, at age 10, to be educated in the UK, for a year staying with family in Manchester.

Her parents returned to Edinburgh and she was sent to St. Denis School which relocated to Drumlanrig in Dumfriesshire, during the Second World War;[3] Nicolson became head girl.

[1] Her own career involved founding a child and family psychiatry department in Dundee, after taking a psychotherapy course in Aberdeen.

[1] She had an 'unshaken belief in the worth of children'[1] and had upheld the view that ' to love a person is to perceive their needs and be able to meet them.

[1] It was reported that she told an East of Scotland meeting, that her early childhood 'in a country where everyone had a religion' was something she regarded as 'fortunate' in seeing religious practices intertwined with everyday life, and in her later school years church was part of the weekly routines.