Background
She was born Anne Margaret Gilmour in Edinburgh on 29 October 1909, the only daughter of John Gilmour 2nd Baronet Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave (1876-1940) and Mary Louise (née Lambert. 1878-1919).
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Anne Bryans
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She was Chairman of the Joint Service Hospitals Welfare and VAD Committee from 1960-1989. Her brother John Gilmour (1912-2007) succeeded to the Baronetcy. She became the Deputy Commissioner of the British Red Cross and Street John War Organisation, Middle East Commission, in 1943 and was Commissioner from January-June 1945.
She was the only woman to be appointed a Commissioner during the Second World War.
She was Deputy Chairman of the BRCS Executive Committee from 1953-1964, and Vice-Chairman, from 1964-1976. Member, Camden and Islington Area Health Authority, 1974-1979
Vice-President, Open Section, Royal Society of Medicine, 1975, President 1980-1982;
Special Trustee and Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital and the Friends of the Royal Free Hospital
Vice-President of the Royal College of Nursing
Governor of Westminster Hospital
Dame Anne Bryans died at Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland, on 21 April 2004, aged 94.
Membership
She joined the British Red Cross Society in the late 1920 and became a member of staff of the in 1938. Lay Member of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (a predecessor of the Health and Care Professions Council), 1973-1979
Member of the Board of Governors, the Eastman Dental Hospital, 1973-1979
Member of the Independent Television Authority, later Independent Broadcasting Authority
Member of the Government Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board. Member of the British Broadcasting Corporation/Industry Training Authority Appeals Committee.
