Glasgow. Gilchrist gave her time on a voluntary basis as physician (1903–11) to Queen Margaret College Settlement's Invalid Children's School. She was a leading member of the British Medical Association, and the first woman chair of its Glasgow division. She was also a trustee of the Muirhead Trust. Suffragette movement Gilchrist was one of the founding members of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage (1902). She left the Association in 1907 to join the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women's Freedom League. Gilchrist examined Constance Lytton before her protest aiming to get arrested disguised as a working woman. In 1922, she was elected President of the Glasgow and West Scotland Association of the Medical Women's Federation. Death Gilchrist died at her home on 7 September 1952. She never married. Honours Gilchrist's achievements were honoured when her home town of Bothwell named a public garden and acar park after her. The University of Glasgow named the Postgraduate Club after her. In 1932, a gift of £1,500 was used to endow a bed at Redlands Women’s hospital for the treatment of eye diseases which was also named in recognition of her. The Gilchrist Window (1936) in the north transept of the Parish Church in her birthplace of Bothwell was created by Douglas Strachan from funds gifted by Gilchrist. The inscription below the window reads, "To the Glory of God. Erected by Marion Gilchrist in memory of her father William Gilchrist and her mother Margaret Williamson, her brothers, John William and Douglas, and her sister Agnes." The Marion Gilchrist Prize was established in 1952 from Marion Gilchrist's bequest and is awarded annually by the University of Glasgow to "the most distinguished woman graduate in Medicine of the year." In 2012, on the 60th anniversary of her death, Bothwell Library had an exhibition to honour her achievements. See also Grace Cadell Edinburgh Seven References External links The Muirhead Trust 1864 births 1952 deaths People educated at Hamilton Academy Alumni of the University of Glasgow 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish suffragists Women in Scotland Alumni of the University of St Andrews Scottish women medical doctors People from Bothwell Scottish ophthalmologists 19th-century Scottish women 20th-century Scottish women 20th-century women physicians 19th-century women physicians Women ophthalmologists 20th-century surgeons Scottish suffragettes