Louisa Lumsden

Louisa Lumsden

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.

External links

* [http://www.stleonards-fife.org/Index.asp?MainID=4382 History of Lacrosse at St Leonards - ] at www.stleonards-fife.org
* [http://www.alumsden.freeserve.co.uk/shop.htm Shop ] at www.alumsden.freeserve.co.uk
* [http://www.st-leonards.org.uk/Index.asp?MainID=5801 November 2006 - News Stories ] at www.st-leonards.org.uk
* [http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/searchthecollections/printed-collections/biog-press/bio_l.cfm Biographical press cuttings L ] at www.londonmet.ac.uk


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • St Leonards School — Infobox Secondary school name=St Leonards School motto= Ad Vitam established=1877 type=Independent Boarding School founder=Louisa Lumsden head label=Headmaster head=Michael Carslaw, BSc, PhD, MBA city=St Andrews state=Fife country=Scotland… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire — Below is a List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire from the Order s creation in 1917 until the present day:1910s*1917: The Baroness Byron, The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Sarah Lees, Edith Lyttelton, The Marchioness of… …   Wikipedia

  • Rosabelle Sinclair — Infobox Lacrosse Player position = shoots = height ft = height in = weight lb = league= School team= St Leonards School nationality = Scotland birth date = birth place = career start = career end = uslaxhof = 189Rosabelle Sinclair, known as the… …   Wikipedia

  • Crosse féminine — Women s lacrosse Fédération internationale IFWLA (1972 2008) FIL (fondée en 2008) Autres appellations Lax, wlax Champion(ne)(s) du monde en titre …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Women's lacrosse — Crosse féminine Crosse féminine Women s lacrosse Fédération internationale IFWLA (1972 2008) FIL (fondée en 2008) Autres appellations Lax, wlax Clubs …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sarah Mair — Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, DBE (1846–1941) was a Scottish campaigner for women s education and women s suffrage, active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies Edinburgh Debating Society, which… …   Wikipedia

  • Lacrosse — Sport imagesize = 225px caption = Lacrosse being played in Finland union = International Lacrosse Federation / International Federation of Women s Lacrosse Associations nickname = Lax first = As early as the 12th century AD, North… …   Wikipedia

  • List of staff for Brookside — This is a comprehensive list of individuals who worked on the Channel 4 Soap opera Brookside from its inception in 1982 until its demise in late 2003. The list is complete and the information was provided by Mersey Television who produced the… …   Wikipedia

  • 2000 New Year Honours — The insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George: Andrew Wood was awarded the Grand Cross in this Honours list. The New Year Honours 2000 for the United Kingdom were announced on 31 December 1999, to celebrate the year… …   Wikipedia

  • List of show business families — This is a list of show business families, compare it to List of U.S. political families. It is contemporary (in the sense that a professional offshoot should still be working in the twentieth or twenty first centuries) and should be expanded. The …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”