Dame Anne Margaret Bryans, DBE, DStJ (1909-2004)
Michael Rhodes
Jerusalem and BRCS Service Hospitals Welfare and VAD Committee,
1960-89, died at Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland, 21 April, 2004. She was
94.
She was born Anne Margaret Gilmour, 29 October, 1909, daughter of the
Right Honourable Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, GCVO, DSO, MP, of
Montrave, by his wife, the former Mary Louise Lambert, and was
educated privately.
Career: joined HQ Staff of the British Red Cross Society, 1938; Deputy
Commissioner, British Red Cross and St John War Organisation, Middle
East Commission, 1943; Commissioner, Jan-June, 1945; Deputy Chairman
1953-64, Vice-Chairman, 1964-76, Executive Committee, BRCS; Lay Member
Council for Professions Supplementary Med., 1973-79; Member of the
Board of Governors, Eastman Dental Hospital, 1973-79; Member, Camden
and Islington Area Health Authority, 1974-79; Vice-President, Open
Section, Royal Society of Medicine, 1975, President 1980-82; was a
Member of the ITA, later IBA; Member of the Government Anglo-Egyptian
Resettlement Board; Member of the BBC/ITA Appeals Committee; Special
Trustee and former Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital and the Friends
of the Royal Free Hospital; former Vice-President of the Royal College
of Nursing; former Governor of Westminster Hospital, &c.
She married in 1932, Lieutenant-Commander J.R. Bryans, RN, who died in
1990. She leaves one son, Patrick.
Her brother is Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet, who lost his wife
earlier in April.
A Thanksgiving Service takes place at Largo & Newburn Parish Church,
Upper Largo, Friday 7 May, 2004.
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Michael Rhodes (please erase the x to e-mail me)
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