Henrietta Tayler

Henrietta Tayler, known as Hetty (24 March 1869 – 10 April 1951), was a London-born Jacobite scholar and First World War Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.

At that point, World War One broke out, Hetty Tayler joined up as a volunteer nurse (Voluntary Aid Detachment or VAD) with the Red Cross,[2] nursing Belgian refugees from the German invasion, and then Tayler came back in Scotland, was appointed Matron of a VAD hospital established at Earlsmount house, Keith, treating returning wounded servicemen.

She was 'a short woman, barely five feet tall, but she had a big heart, an inquiring mind, a great sense of humour and a ready smile'.

[1] Tayler was pleased that her brother and herself were 'the last historians ‘to sail the uncharted seas of the Stuart Papers, making on the way the most thrilling discoveries,’ which had to be all transcribed manually.

[2] From this archive, the Taylers were able to write from analysis of the original journal of John William O’Sullivan,[5](Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General of the Jacobite army) one of the Seven Men of Moidart, the close supporters who travelled to Scotland with Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie.