2022-05-10 Tue

The Bank of Scotland will introduce a new 100 pounds polymer note in May to honor Dr. Flora Murray, a Scottish physician, and suffragist.

Dr. Flora Murray was a Scottish physician and suffragist who was a committed member of the Women’s Social and Political Union suffragists and in concert with her partner, Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson, founded 1912 the Women’s Hospital for Children to provide healthcare for children of poor factory and shop workers. When World War I broke out in 1914, the two women founded the feminist organization “Women’s Hospital Corps” and opened two military hospitals in France, with a staff composed of suffragists.

The back of the note depicts a portrait of Dr. Murray, along with a vignette of wounded soldiers being removed on stretchers from a truck outside the Endell Street Hospital. Also depicted is the Bank of Scotland’s headquarters building on The Mound in Edinburgh.

The face of the note has the same image of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, alongside the Bank of Scotland’s headquarters building on The Mound as the current £100 cotton note.

Image Courtesy coinworld.com