Beatrice Clugston

Beatrice Clugston (1827-1888) was a Scottish philanthropist.[1][2] She was the daughter of factory owner John Clugston (1800-1850) and Mary Clugston (1796-1881), and her father left her with enough money to live on without having to work.[2] She had a childhood illness, and never married.[1]

In 1864 she founded the Glasgow Royal Dorcas Society, which gave clothes and a little money to patients when they were discharged.[1][2][3] The Society eventually began other services such as organizing for an invalid chair in each ward, organizing visitors to offer spiritual comforts at the patients' bedsides, and paying traveling expenses for some hospital visitors.[3] She also founded two convalescent homes; one of them was the Glasgow Convalescent Home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, which was the first convalescent home in West Scotland, and the other was the West of Scotland Seaside Convalescent Homes, which was the largest in Scotland at the time, with 250 beds.[1]

In her later life a fund was created to give her an annuity because of her work.[1]

Clugston also helped to raise funds for the Broomhill Home for Incurables, and in 1891 a memorial was erected to her in its grounds.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Elizabeth L. Ewan; Sue Innes; Sian Reynolds; Rose Pipes (8 March 2006). The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 77–. ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1.
  2. 1 2 3 Colin Rochester (2011). Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action: Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-1-84519-424-6.
  3. 1 2 3 Scott Graham - ABACUS. "TheGlasgowStory: Beatrice Clugston".
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