[2][3][4] Her father, Henry Robert Robertson, was an artist of Scottish extraction and her mother, Agnes Lucy Turner, was a descendant of Robert Chamberlain, who founded the china works of Chamberlain & Son at Worcester (which later became Royal Worcester), and her mother's relatives included John Davidson (traveller), the African explorer, and George Fownes, both of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society.

In December 1912 she was appointed the organiser of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Election Fighting Fund.

[19] She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Movement for Democratic Control[20] In April 1928, Hills was elected to Stroud Urban District Council.

On the same evening they were married, Harold, a reservist doctor in the RAMC, reported for duty at Aldershot with the 4th Field Ambulance and landed in France on 16 August with the Expeditionary Force.

His time with the 4th Army included giving expert evidence in courts-martial concerning soldiers facing charges of desertion.

[29] In 1922 they moved to Stroud, where Harold took over the practice of Doctor Henry Hardy at 11 Rowcroft and succeeded him as Certifying Surgeon under the Factories Acts.

[30] The family took up residence at the surgery and remained there until they moved to Cotsmoor, Private Road, Rodborough (now known as Lotus Cottage).