Lendrum Elizabeth Bertram 1906-1983 arts student, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Elizabeth Bertram Lendrum (nèe Currie), was born in 1906 in Glasgow. She was the daughter of Donald Currie who was a lawyer. Elizabeth began studying at the University of Glasgow in 1925 and during her time at the University she was President of the Queen Margaret Union. She graduated MA in 1928 , and after studying for an extra year at the University in order to equip herself more fully for the profession, she became an Almoner. Elizabeth trained in Glasgow and London, working at St Thomas' Hospital, University College Hospital and Maudsley Hospital before returning to Edinburgh to start the almoners office in the Edinburgh Women's Hospital at Bruntsfield.

Elizabeth married Alan Chalmers Lendrum, a pathologist, at the Glasgow University Memorial Chapel on 8 September 1934 , and they lived in Glasgow while she worked in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She then went on to work in Dundee at the Dundee Royal Infirmary and undertook a vast amount of voluntary work to the end of her life. She died in Dundee on 17 May 1983 .