Background
She was born in Quebec in Canada the second daughter of David Gilmour (d1857) the youngest son of Allan Gilmour of Allan Gilmour & Company, a major shipping company with major Canadian connections.
She was born in Quebec in Canada the second daughter of David Gilmour (d1857) the youngest son of Allan Gilmour of Allan Gilmour & Company, a major shipping company with major Canadian connections.
She is the creator of the Lady Henrietta Gilmour Photographic Collection, 1500 prints and 145 lantern slides held by Street Andrews University. At marriage he had estates at both Lundin and Montrave. He later acquired Greenside, Pratis and Kilmux, all nearby in Fife.
She is one of the first female curlers to be photographed on ice (1895).
Unusually (and probably due to her own influence) this club admitted both male and female members. Around the same time she took up photography and is the first identified female photographer in Scotland.
A further 600 negatives were given to the National Museum of Scotland and are held by the Scottish Archive. The collections gives a fascinating personal insight into society life in late 19th century Scotland.
She had seven children: Allan (1874-1878), John (Jack) (b1876), Harry (1878-1925), Maud (b1882), Henrietta (Netta) (b1884), Ronald (1888-1888) and Douglas (b1889)
Lady Henrietta appears as one of the only two female curlers in the large assembly of famous curlers known as Curling at Carsebeck, painted for the Royal Caledonian Curling Club by Charles Martin Hardie in 1899.