Agnes Morrison

Agnes Brysson Morrison (1867-1934, Inglis)

Charitable work Morrison's first recorded collection was in 1900 when she raised money for the Fund for Sufferers in the South African War (the Boer war).

On 5 September 1914 she organised her first flag day, raising £3,800 in Scotland for Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association one month after the start of World War I. 3,600 volunteers sold small Union Jack flags, on pins, to be worn by the donors.

Personal life Morrison was born in 1867, daughter of a Glasgow lawyer. She married Arthur Mackie Morrison, an engineer, and they had six children including Agnes (1903-1986), who published novels and biographies as Nancy Brysson Morrison and as Christine Strathern. A source states that her husband was Lord Provost of Glasgow at the time of the 1914 collection, but the post was held in 1914 by Daniel Stevenson succeeded by Thomas Dunlop. She died in 1934.