Jennifer Marianne Hart

Jennifer Marianne Hart (15 December 1916 – 7 November 1997) also known as Maidie Bridge (maiden name) or Maidie Hart, was born in Brookfield, Renfrewshire, Scotland and died in Edinburgh at the age of 80. She was a campaigner for equality, development and peace.

Life Hart was the daughter of Jennifer Gibson, and Norman Cressy Bridge who was a consultant electrical engineer. She was educated at St Columba’s school, and at the University of St Andrews, where she graduated with first-class honours in English. There she met fellow student, William Douglas (Bill) Hart. They married in 1941. (WCC). From early days in the playgroup movement, through work with the Church of Scotland – she was President of the Woman’s Guild in the 1970s – to ecumenical involvement with the WCC, she followed her belief that women, too, are made in the image of God. SCOW’s work was carried forward after 1992 by bodies including the Scottish Joint Action Group, Women’s Forum Scotland, Engender, the Network of Ecumenical Women in Scotland (NEWS) and the now government-supported Scottish Women’s Convention.