Louisa Lumsden

Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden, born into a wealthy family in Aberdeen, Scotland 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 School, St Andrews, Scotland, where it remains popular today amongst private school girls.[1]

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 in Montreal. She wrote: It is a wonderful game, beautiful and graceful. (I was so charmed with it that I introduced it at St Leonards.)"

Miss Lumsden resigned from St Leonards in 1882 but Rosabelle Sinclair, who established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States attended St Leonards between 1906 and 1910. Rosabelle Sinclair established lacrosse for girls at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

Miss Lumsden's autobiography, Yellow Leaves (1933), was eventually presented to the US Lacrosse Museum in Baltimore.

References

  1. ^ "History of Lacrosse at St Leonards". STLeonards-Fife.org. http://www.stleonards-fife.org/Index.asp?MainID=4382. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  2. ^ "History of Bryn Mawr School". brynmawrschool.org. http://www.brynmawrschool.org/about/history.aspx. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 

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