Victoria Drummond
Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (14 October 1894 – 1978), was the first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. She was born at Errol, the daughter of Capt. Malcolm Drummond, JP and Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, and a Goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She went to sea in the 1920s, initiating a career then thought unsuitable for a lady.
Read more about Victoria Drummond: Qualifying As An Engineer, Service During World War II, Appointment As Chief Engineer - 1959
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“The men who are grandfathers should be the fathers. Grandpas get to do it right with their grandchildren.”
—Anonymous Grandparent. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 2 (1992)
“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”
—Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)