Isabel Emslie Hutton

Isabel Galloway Emslie Hutton

Lady Isabel Galloway Emslie Hutton CBE (née Isabel Galloway Emslie; 1887–1960) was a Scottish medical doctor who specialised in mental health and social work. ^[1]

Her husband was Thomas Jacomb Hutton.

Early life

She was born Isabel Galloway Emslie in Edinburgh in 1887 and attended Edinburgh Ladies' College. She was the eldest daughter of James Emslie, advocate and deputy keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland.

Medical career

She was a student of Edinburgh University and trained in the women's medical school, spending her hospital residence years at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. She graduated in 1910 with a degree in medicine. In 1912, she was awarded her MD with a thesis on the Wasserman reaction to the test for syphilis in the blood and cerebro-spinal fluid of the insane.

Title page of I. E. Hutton's "The Hygiene of Marriage" Wellcome L0033336.jpg

The Scottish Women's Hospital - in the Cloister of the Abbaye at Royaumont by artist Norah Neilson Gray (1882 - 1931). Dr. Frances Ivens inspecting a French patient. Art.IWMART3090.jpg

References

1. ↑ Anita McConnell (2004) "Hutton, Isabel Galloway Emslie , Lady Hutton (1887–1960)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71709