Isabel Galloway Emslie Hutton, Lady Hutton

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(11 September 1887 – 11 January 1960), previously Isabel Galloway Emslie, was a Scottish physician who specialised in

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and social work.McConnell, Anita (2004) "Hutton, Isabel Galloway Emslie , Lady Hutton (1887–1960)" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press Emslie served leading units in Dr.

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in the front line in

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and won awards from the British, Serbian, Russian and French. Emslie married British military officer Lt General Sir

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Early life and education

Isabel Galloway Emslie was born in

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in 1887. She was the eldest daughter of James Emslie, advocate and Deputy Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. She was educated at

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, then enrolled at the

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, where she trained in the women's medical school, spending her hospital residence years at the

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. In 1910, she graduated with a degree in medicine and in 1912 was awarded her MD degrees with a thesis titled "Wassermann sero-diagnosis of syphilis in 200 cases of insanity".

Career

While completing her thesis, Emslie worked as a

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at the Stirling District Asylum, then moved to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children before becoming the first woman to be appointed in charge of the women's medicine of the

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. In 1915, she joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals Organisation and served in France at the Domaine de Chanteloup, Sainte-Savine, near Troyes, then with the

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’s Armee d'Orient in

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, distinguishing herself by leading the unit which accompanied the

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during the

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. Following the closure of the Serbian hospital where she worked, Emslie took over Lady Muriel Paget's mission in

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. In this role, she brought several orphaned children to

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(now Istanbul) and organised relief for Russian refugees. In 1928, she published ''With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol'', an account of these years. For her work during this period, she was awarded the Serbian orders of the White Eagle and St. Sava, the French Croix de Guerre, and the

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of Russia. On her return to Edinburgh in 1920, she was reinstated to her former post at the

but resigned the position after her marriage the following year to Major Thomas Hutton. She then moved to

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, working as a researcher the

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which led to a research paper with Sir Frederick Mott, and honorary consultancies at the Maudsley and the West End Hospital for Nervous Disease. In October 1939, she was living in

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and was registered as a consultant physician. In 1940, she published ''Mental Disorders in Modern Life'', drawing on her experience from these roles. During the

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, she joined her husband in India and took up the post of director of the Indian Red Cross welfare service, also undertaking charity work, broadcasting, and dispatches for the external affairs department. She returned to England in 1946. In 1948, she was appointed as a

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. Becoming a senior consultant, Hutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the

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. She died on 11 January 1960 at her home in London. She was buried with her parents in the

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in south Edinburgh. Her gravestone, sculpted by

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, stands near the centre of the south-west extension.

Selected works

* ''With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol'', 1928 * ''Mental Disorders in Modern Life'', 1940 * autobiography, ''Memoirs of a Doctor in War and Peace'', 1960.

Awards and honours

* In 2015, a Serbian postage stamp was released to honour her work during the war. * Serbian orders of the White Eagle and St. Sava * French Croix de Guerre *

of Russia * 1948,

* in the city of

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, Serbia the località Medicine High School brings her name in her honour.

References

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Early life and education

Career

Selected works

Awards and honours

See also

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