Prison visitor and author. The youngest daughter of Great Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, she was born in London and educated at the North London Collegiate School, where she became the head girl, and at Somerville College, Oxford. She had hoped to enter politics, but her father's decision to enter into a Coalition Government put an end to this, and, instead, she became a classifying officer at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. When her eldest sister, Ishbel, married, Sheila took her place as her father's political hostess. She accompanied her father on several visits overseas and was with him in 1937 on the voyage to South America when he died. After the War, she became the hostess to her brother Malcolm, who was the British High Commissioner to Canada. In 1948, in Hampstead, she married Andrew Van Slyke Lochhead (1911-2001), a lecturer in social administration at Swansea University; they went on to have three children. For three years, she served as the chairwoman of the National Association of Prison Visitors, and wrote a book called "Outside In" (1993), a history of prison visiting. She died in Swansea, but is buried in Scotland with her parents and siblings.
Prison visitor and author. The youngest daughter of Great Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, she was born in London and educated at the North London Collegiate School, where she became the head girl, and at Somerville College, Oxford. She had hoped to enter politics, but her father's decision to enter into a Coalition Government put an end to this, and, instead, she became a classifying officer at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. When her eldest sister, Ishbel, married, Sheila took her place as her father's political hostess. She accompanied her father on several visits overseas and was with him in 1937 on the voyage to South America when he died. After the War, she became the hostess to her brother Malcolm, who was the British High Commissioner to Canada. In 1948, in Hampstead, she married Andrew Van Slyke Lochhead (1911-2001), a lecturer in social administration at Swansea University; they went on to have three children. For three years, she served as the chairwoman of the National Association of Prison Visitors, and wrote a book called "Outside In" (1993), a history of prison visiting. She died in Swansea, but is buried in Scotland with her parents and siblings.
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In loving memory of
Isabella Allan Ramsay
who died at Lossiemouth 4th. Feby. 1893
aged 82 years.
Also of her brother
Rev. Alexander Allan, M.A.
who died at Elgin 2nd. January 1847,
aged 27 years.
Also her son Alexander,
born 15th. Decr. 1841, died 25th. Decr. 1908.
And her daughter Anne,
born 4th. Augt. 1843, died 11th. Feby. 1910.
Mother of J. Ramsay MacDonald.
And his daughters
Joan Margaret MacKinnon
born 28th. April 1908, died 23rd. August 1989
Sheila Ramsay Lochhead
born 7th. Dec. 1910, died 22nd. July 1994
Also his eldest son
Alister Gladstone MacDonald
born 18th. May 1898, died 22nd. March 1993.
Erected by her family.
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