Louisa Hope Stevenson

Louisa Hope Sinclair (née Stevenson; 21 March 1864-13 Oct 1950) was an early female conservationist.

The family lived at 9 Oxford Terrace in the Learmonth district of west Edinburgh, close to Dean Bridge.

[1] In October 1905 she married Alexander Garden Sinclair ARSA, a noted Scottish landscape and portrait artist.

[2] In 1917 she became the first female office-holder of the prominent Edinburgh conservationist group the Cockburn Association, taking on the role of joint Honorary Secretary.

[6] Louisa died on the 13 October 1950 and is buried in her parents' family plot near the centre of the northern 19th-century extension of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh alongside her husband.