Ethel Douglas

Ethel Douglas (30 June 1916 – 5 June 2020) was assistant secretary of the Law Society of Scotland, and one of the first women to be an elder when this was permitted in the Church of Scotland, in Greenside Parish Church, Edinburgh, and was president of the Guild. thumb

Life and work Born on 30 June 1916, to Agnes and James Douglas, who was a fishmonger. She was educated at Broughton School and the University of Edinburgh, where she was one of only five women in her class taking Law (out of 50 students), and was also caring for her mother. and served representing the parish for 31 years on the presbytery until retiring from the role when she was eighty-five years old. She had served as an elder for 50 years. She was the link person to St Columba's Hospice for twenty-seven years.

Douglas became president of the Woman's Guild in 1970.

Her death in a care home, was on 5 June 2020, aged 103.