Elsie Inglis

So which women should be commemorated with statues? We have identified several candidates who deserve more recognition for their works.

Elsie Inglis was a pioneering doctor and suffragist, an obvious choice for a statue. She had been commemorated on the £50 Clydesdale banknote, and the fondly remembered Elsie Inglis maternity hospital. When war broke out 1914 Elsie Inglis offered her services to her country and was told, "My good lady, go home and sit still", by the War Office. Undeterred she organised Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, setting up 14 medical units that served throughout Europe and Russia during the conflict, an outfit so impressive that a Serbian official remarked, "No wonder England is a great country if the women are like that".