EPPS, Dr Hon Mrs (nee Hon Pamela Anne MONCREIFF then WHITE) (1927-2023)
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EPPS Dr. the Hon. Pamela Anne (née Moncreiff) (formerly White) (Edinburgh) Peacefully, at Edinburgh Western General Hospital, on Thursday, October 26, 2023. Dr. the Hon. Pamela Anne Epps (née Moncreiff), formerly White, aged 96, of Barntongate, Edinburgh and Ardchoille, Loch Awe, Argyll. Dear mother of Anne, Nicolas, Vivienne and Douglas, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. Funeral service and interment at Fossoway Parish Church, Crook of Devon, Kinross, on Wednesday, November 15, at 11.30 am, to which all family and friends are respectfully invited.
She was the dau of James Arthur FitzHerbert MONCREIFF, 4th Baron Moncreiff (1872-1942) and (m 1906) Lucy Vida ANDERSON (d 1973). She m (1) 1951 (div 1973) Edward James WHITE and (2) 1979 Ernest Frederick EPPS and had issue as above
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Scotsman Obituaries: Pamela Epps, GP who pioneered treatment of people struggling with drug addiction
Dr The Hon Pamela Anne Epps, GP. Born: 17 July 1927, near Doncaster. Died: 26 October 2023 in Edinburgh, aged 96
…Pamela Anne Moncrieff was the seventh and youngest child of Lord James Moncreiff, the 4th Baron Moncreiff and his wife Lucy. She was born at Edenthorpe Hall, near Doncaster, and the family moved to their ancestral home, Tullibole Castle, Crook of Devon, Kinross, when she was five. Pamela’s childhood there, in the early 1930s, was idyllic. She and her youngest brother were able to run wild in the countryside and the house was always full of friends and siblings.
But by 1942 everything had changed: Pamela’s father died suddenly, her three brothers had gone to war and one of her sisters was widowed. As a teenager she found herself living alone in the castle with two widows. However, she threw herself into school work at Dollar Academy and went up to Edinburgh University a year early at the age of 17.
Her daughter Anne was born in 1946 and Pamela graduated MBChB in 1949, going on to work as a registrar in TB wards in Doncaster before returning to Edinburgh. She became Dr White in 1951 after marrying Edward White, with whom she had three more children, Nicolas, Vivienne and Douglas….
She and Edward divorced in 1972 and in 1979 she married Ernest Epps, buying a house on the shores of Loch Awe where she could escape the pressures of her ever-increasing workload….
After running the practice single-handedly for a quarter of a century, she retired in 1989. Ernie had died suddenly a couple of years earlier but, accompanied by family, she returned to their cottage in Argyll every month for almost 33 years….
Pamela Epps is survived by her four children, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and a great-great granddaughter.