Henrietta Gilmour

Henrietta, Lady Gilmour (1852 – 2 January 1926) was a pioneering photographer and winter sportswoman. She is the creator of the Lady Henrietta Gilmour Photographic Collection of 1500 prints and 145 lantern slides held by the University of St Andrews. Life Gilmour was born in 1852 in Canada East, the second daughter of David Gilmour (died 1857) the youngest son of Allan Gilmour of Allan Gilmour & Company, a major shipping company with important Canadian connections. During a visit of her first cousin, John Gilmour (later Sir John Gilmour), she fell in love. They married in 1873 and she returned to Scotland with him to live at Montrave House in central Fife, several miles south of Cupar. At marriage he had estates at both Lundin and Montrave. He later acquired Greenside, Pratis and Kilmux, all nearby in Fife.