Helen Rabagliati

Helen Priscilla Rabagliati, MBE (née McLaren; 1851–1934) was a local philanthropist and campaigner for improvements in health, women's condition and political change.

She founded an early hospice, St Catherine's and supported a maternity home for young unsupported women, St. Monica's.

During World War 1, she was president of the Ilkley Ladies' Belgian Hospitality Committee.

Helen Rabagliati was invested as a Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Curiously, Helen increasingly took the opposite political viewpoint of that of her family.