Agnes Barr Auchencloss
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Agnes Barr Auchencloss | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 May 1886 |
| Died | 4 July 1972 (aged 86) |
| Other names | Lundholm |
| Education | MBChB, University of Glasgow (1911) |
| Occupation | Medical Officer at HM Factory, Gretna |
| Awards | University of Glasgow World War One Roll of Honour |
Agnes Barr Auchencloss (30 May 1886 – 4 July 1972) was a Scottish medical officer. She is best known for her work at the World War I munitions factory HM Factory, Gretna. She is included in the University of Glasgow Roll of Honour.[1]
Agnes Barr Auchencloss was born in Paisley, Scotland on 30 May 1886 to Jane Crawford and James Currie Auchencloss. Her father was a starch and cornflour merchant. She had a brother, also named James Currie Achencloss. She and her brother were educated at Paisley Grammar School and the University of Glasgow, where she studied medicine.[2] On 24 April 1911 she graduated with a MBChB, having won nine class prizes including first class in Anatomy and Surgery.[2]
She met and married Swedish chemist Gosta Lundholm,[3] whose family had been in Scotland for many years, and had British citizenship.[1] Her husband then worked at the British South African Explosive Company which served the gold mines in the Transvaal, South Africa.[2] Her father-in-law Carl Olof Lundholm had been commissioned by Alfred Nobel to manage his dynamite factory in Ardeer, Scotland.[2]
Their sons, Eric Olof Lundholm (b.1915) and Alan Basil Auchenloss Lundholm (b. 1921) were born at Modderfontein. Between 1915 and 1921 the family lived in Scotland near the munitions factory in Gretna.[2]
They returned to Scotland from South Africa as her husband Gosta was working in a factory at Westquarter making fulminate of mercury. At this time the family lived in Falkirk.[4] They then moved to Ardrossan as Gosta was working at Ardeer.
Her eldest son, Eric was a Royal Engineer in the Middle East during World War II.[4]
Her husband Gotta died in 1969 and she moved in with her son Alan and his wife in Torrance, Glasgow.[2]
She died in the Edinburgh City Hospital on 4 July 1972.[2]