Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul

Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul FRSE (1878-1953) was a Scottish ornithologist and rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

[2] In 1911, Rintoul and Baxter were elected "Honorary Lady Members" of the British Ornithologists' Union.

Her proposers were James Ritchie, Alexander Peacock, John Berry and Sir Maurice Yonge.

[5] Rintoul died at Balsusney in Upper Largo on 22 May 1953 and is buried with her parents within the abandoned church at Newburn, Fife, a popular spot for romantically sited burials.

[8] The bird skins donated included the "first records of some species in the Firth of Forth, as well as the first Pied Wheatear found in Britain and the first Common Nightingale and Melodious Warbler in Scotland".