Elizabeth Georgeson

Jessie Helen Elizabeth Lilian MacLeod Georgeson (9 July 1895 – 1 Oct 1977) was a Scottish engineer who was the first woman to graduate in engineering at a Scottish university, the University of Edinburgh.

Education Georgeson was born in Kelvinside, Glasgow in 1895 to Frederick Hugh Georgeson and Elizabeth Sarah Mackenzie.

Georgeson was 21 when she began her career at the University of Edinburgh in 1916,

Georgeson graduated with a BSc in engineering in July 1919. She also achieved a 1st class certificate of merit in mechanical engineering and 2nd class certificates in junior engineering labs and engineering fieldwork.

She completed the article with a call to enjoy mathematics more: "It is not difficult to see a connection between mathematics and laughter making fun. A brain must be in absolutely tip-top condition to invent really clever nonsense, and the study of mathematics does keep brains truly fit. And the moral of all this, as the Duchess would say, is that we should all work at our maths, it is vitally important to engineers, both directly and indirectly as a brain tonic: and my limited experience of girl engineers leads me to think that we are rather apt to neglect this branch of our craft". Georgeson may have been a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. giving her £280 to travel and study. As this was during the Second World War, it is probable that she could only have travelled within Britain.