Hilda Aitken

Hilda Smith Aitken MCP (July 17, 1891 – July 30, 1987) was one of the first two female members of the colonial parliament of Bermuda, along with Edna Watson, after a campaign by The Women's Suffrage Society for their election to the House of Assembly in 1948.

Early life Hilda D. Smith was born in Smith's Parish, Bermuda, the daughter of farmers Gilbert S. W. Smith and Clara A. Smith. Her paternal grandmother, Caroline Boyd, was born in London, and moved to Bermuda in 1849, a workhouse child sent to work as a servant in the British colony. Hilda Smith attended the Bermuda High School for Girls.

Career Hilda Smith worked for the post office before she married in 1914. She was active with the Girl Guides beginning when her children were young. She was a Brownie troop leader for 23 years and the Central District Girl Guide Commissioner. She served on the Board of Health, and on the Smith's Parish Welfare Society board. During World War II, she worked with a government nutrition committee on the island's food supply. She was also a member of the Bermuda Women’s Suffrage Society led by Gladys Morrell; after suffrage was won in 1944, she was active in the society's successor, the Bermuda Women’s Civic and Political Association.