Anne McAllister

Anne Hutchison McAllister (29 November 1892 – 5 April 1983) was a leading Scottish speech therapist and teacher.

Life McAllister was born in Biggar in Lanarkshire in 1892. Her father Robert Dempster McAllister was married to Anne Huchison McAllister. She took a first and then master's degree (in 1917) at Glasgow University.

She became a lecturer in phonetics at Stow College She became a lecturer at Jordanhill College of Education and an experienced speech therapist. In 1924 she obtained a B.Ed. from her alma mater.

She became a founding fellow of the College of Speech Therapists (now the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists) in London in 1945. Allister was appointed an OBE in 1954. In 1964 she stood down from being the director of the Glasgow School of Speech Therapy.