Career
She was one of the first female graduates of Street Andrews University having read History, near her family home Grangemuir, near Pittenweem in Fife. She was the daughter of Walter Douglas-Irvine and Anne Frances (née Lloyd), granddaughter of Lord William Robert Keith Douglas (the younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry). She died from pneumonia in Chile while researching a book on early Spanish colonial life.
She was also a contributing author to the Victoria County History.