Muriel Ritson CBE (1885–1980) was a career administrator and worked in the civil service.
Muriel was in born in Gourock to John Fletcher Ritson, a railway agent, and Agnes Jane Catto.
She always valued having been educated at a co-educational school, and worked to promote women's equality in the workplace.
[2] She began working as a social worker and rent collector for the Glasgow Workman's Dwellings Company between 1908 and 1911.
Her most important contribution was to the Beveridge Committee, which was instrumental in helping to establish the National Health Service of the United Kingdom.