Louisa Lumsden

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Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden, DBE, LL.D (Hons) (1840 - 1935) was a lecturer in classics at Girton College and the first Headmistress of St Leonards, Fife. She is credited with introducing lacrosse to St. Leonards, where it is still very popular today.

Lumsden, in a letter written home from White Mountains, New Hampshire dated 6 September 1884, recounted her visit to watch the Canghuwaya Indians play lacrosse against the Montreal Club. She said: - "It is a wonderful game, beautiful and graceful. (I was so charmed with it that I introduced it at St Leonards)".

Her autobiography, Yellow Leaves (1933), was eventually presented to the US Lacrosse Museum in Baltimore.

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