Josephine Stewart

Josephine "Phiny" Katherine Stewart (8 August 1870 – 26 May 1934) was a British schoolmistress, tennis and hockey player, golfer and President of the Scottish Women's Lacrosse Association. She was devoted to sport and St Leonards School in St Andrews in Scotland.

Life Stewart was born in 1870 in Edinburgh. Her parents were Anna Dowson Earle and Daniel Shaw Stewart who was a Captain in the 11th Hussars cavalry. When she was seven, St Andrews School for Girls was started in Fife by the women's rights campaigner Madeline Daniell and Stewart was one of her first pupils. That school was later renamed as the St Leonards School. The year before she left in 1888 she was the day girls games captain. and Stewart coached some of the early players at the school. In 1895 she was elected vice-President of the Scottish Women's Hockey Association and the following year she won the St Andrews ladies' golf club's spring medal. A role she held until she died in St Andrews in 1934. She died a few weeks before she was, fearfully, going to retire. Her gravestone ignores the five years she was not actually at the school and says "at St Leonards School 1877–1934".