Louisa Lumsden
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Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden, DBE (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 remains popular today.
Lumsden, in a letter written home from the White Mountains in 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.
