Her mother was Louisa Martindale, née Spicer, a British activist for women's rights and suffragist.
[1][6][7] Her elder sister Dr. Louisa Martindale (named after their mother) was a leading surgeon.
[2] In 1918, she was a recipient of one of the 1918 Birthday Honours; specifically, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
[2] Martindale died on 18 April 1952, aged 77, in Coleherne Court, South Kensington, London.
[19] In her will she appointed Bedford College as trustees of the Hilda Martindale Trust, which "makes a very limited number of awards to British women towards training or studying for a career in a profession where women are underrepresented.