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Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother
('Granniema'). Like her granddaughter, she lived to be a
centenarian, raised a large family, exhibited varied talents and
died beloved by a wide range of family, friends and admirers. Her
children included her son Richard, who was Secretary of State for
War, and then Lord Chancellor, Mitchison's father, a great
scientist whose work saved many lives, and the author/editor of
this slim volume, originally compiled really for family and
friends, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, an outstanding woman who
became Scotland's first woman Justice of the Peace. 'Granniema' had
five step children and six of her own. Despite a sometimes painful
religious upbringing, she was to achieve something near sainthood:
a devout believer herself, she had a large-hearted tolerance, and
encouraged liberty of thought. No one accuses her of narrowness.
Born some half a century too early to achieve fame in the wider
world, she nevertheless won the hearts of everyone she knew. She
loved painting but was not trained. She was widowed, after a very
happy marriage, for forty-eight years, for the last twelve of which
she was an invalid. She was first mistress of Cloan, and a great
nineteenth-century heroine.
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