Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto

On 28 July 1883, she married Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, becoming countess of Minto when her husband succeeded to his father’s title in 1891.

Her projects during their six-year stay in Canada included instituting a Queen Victoria memorial fund to raise money for rural cottage hospitals with the Victorian Order of Nurses.

She became involved with the Countess of Dufferin Fund for the improvement of women’s healthcare, using her connections to secure government funding for it, and launched the Lady Minto Indian Nursing Association, which built on the work of Mary Curzon.

[4][5] As part of a two-week fête that she held in 1907 to fundraise for the Association, she launched a set of three postage stamps depicting herself and her husband.

[2][7] Predeceased by her husband and two of her children, including the death of her son Gavin in the First World War, she died at her home at Hambleton, Godalming, on 14 July 1940.

Lady Minto and her five children dressed for winter in Ottawa, 1901
Lady Minto, as Vicereine of India