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43-608: The origins of the Scottish Hockey Union, like many hockey organisations started with separate associations for men and women. The Scottish Women's Hockey Association (SWHA) was formed in February 1900, in Edinburgh by eight clubs. Dr. Mona Chalmers Watson , from Edinburgh Ladies, was elected the first president with Josephine Katherine Stewart of St Andrews as vice-president. The Scottish Hockey Association (SHA)

86-555: A hospital or a ward be beyond reach, establish one or more beds in her honour—she was on the Board of Management of the Royal Infirmary—or else a bursary or research scholarship for women medical students? So would her memory be kept green and her indomitable courage be a constant inspiration to many earnest workers who—like me—might have very little chance of ever seeing a bronze plaque in a club hall Three years later, this oversight

129-575: A mortality rate of just over 1 per 1000, informed the topic of her MD thesis when she returned to Edinburgh the following year. Chalmers Watson obtained her MD on 30 July 1898 from the University of Edinburgh's Medical College, the first woman to do so; fellow University of Edinburgh alumna Jessie MacLaren MacGregor did not receive her MD until 1899. The same day that she received her M.D., Mona Geddes became Dr Mona Chalmers Watson, marrying Dr Douglas Chalmers Watson that afternoon; she had delayed

172-702: A number of Districts within Scottish Hockey The Scottish Hockey Union Limited (Scottish Hockey) is a company limited by guarantee legally incorporated in Scotland under the Companies Act 2006 (the Act). Under the company's objectives it is responsible primarily as the governing body for all hockey related activity in Scotland and the promotion of those interests. The directors of Scottish Hockey are responsible for

215-720: A precedent that would be followed – and expanded upon – during the Second World War , laying the foundation for the Auxiliary Territorial Service , which became the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1949. Her work organising the WAAC was recognised by the award of (one of the first) CBEs in 1917, and the Ladies' Pictorial on 20 February 1918 said she had "nobly done her bit". Chalmers Watson's portrait

258-435: A recruiting pamphlet calling on 'every strong healthy and active woman not employed on work of national importance' to volunteer. Selecting as her deputy Helen Gwynne-Vaughan , Chalmers Watson raised a corps of 40,850 women, of whom some 17,000 served overseas (although never more than 8,777 at a time). She regarded the creation of the WAAC as "an advance of the women's movement and... a national advance" and noted that for

301-618: A senior physician. Mona Chalmers Watson was a suffragette supporter, and treated suffragette prisoners on release from hunger strike and force-feeding in Perth Gaol. From the beginning of the First World War , women in Scotland typically worked in the nursing or munitions industries, occasionally running field hospitals and soup canteens or driving ambulances with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry , which

344-473: Is accountable to the CEO. In addition, the Board reserves certain matters to itself as the ultimate decision-making body. The President and vice-president are not directors of Scottish Hockey and do not have a vote on strategic decisions at Board level. However, they are important conduits of information to and from the membership, which aid strategic and operational decision-making. They are important ambassadors for

387-631: Is in charge of organising both National league and Regional league hockey for both men and women's hockey in Scotland. This is for both indoor and outdoor hockey. They also organise all cup competitions, which includes the Scottish Cup , the District Cup and the Reserve Cup . Scottish Hockey assists with running each district, however a voluntary committee runs senior district league hockey for West, East and North districts. There are

430-850: The Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women , which had been established by Elsie Inglis , later a noted suffragist, and her father John Inglis . She graduated MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1896. After her graduation, Chalmers Watson spent a year in London working as a physician at the Maternity District Association at Plaistow ; she also spent six months working at Dr Barnardo's Homes in Kent. Chalmers Watson's experience working in Plaistow, where her record consisted of more than 1000 confinements with

473-575: The British pro-suffrage movement with over 538 women doctors supporting the right to vote, and only 15 against. Later in her life Chalmers Watson put politics aside when working on improving health care in Scotland, with anti-suffragist Kitty Murray, who went on to become a Conservative M.P . Chalmers Watson was a director of the Time and Tide Publishing Company. When the Representation of

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516-719: The Department of Health for Scotland in 1933. The Cathcart Report issued by the Committee on Scottish Health Services has been seen as a model for post-war British medical services and helped lay the foundation for a unique Scottish health system. In June 1935, she was appointed a member of the Advisory Committee on Diet by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland; the aim of this committee

559-527: The Fenton Barns farm in North Berwick , East Lothian, where they began breeding a herd of tuberculin-tested cattle. Eventually, they established a model dairy which was responsible for the production of certified milk. The farm became renowned across Europe for its pioneering experiments focused specifically on improving the quality of milk and the production and distribution of certified milk for

602-625: The Patriotic Emergency Food League and the Women's Emergency Corps ., the latter as honorary secretary. In her later career, Chalmers Watson became a member of the Advisory Committee on Nutrition and was an expert member on the Scottish Board of Health's Consultative Councils throughout the 1920s She was also a member of the Standing Committee on Scottish Health Sciences, having been appointed by

645-571: The People Act, 1918 gave the vote to 8.4 million women, Chalmers Watson became the first president of the Edinburgh Women Citizens' Association , which strongly advocated continuing to improve the scope of female suffrage, by 'extensive lobbying, campaigning and educational work and a remarkable breadth of interests, including straightforwardly ‘equality’ issues such as women’s representation in local and central government,

688-545: The Scottish Women's Medical Association and the British Women's Medical Federation, having been elected to the latter some months before her death. Looking back over her career, she was reported to have felt it was 'an honour to have lived through such great times for women, and to know that the generation after us will not have the same fight for liberty'. In 1923, Chalmers Watson and her husband inherited

731-671: The USSR (Russian: Федерация хоккея с мячом и хоккея на траве СССР) was the governing body for the sports of bandy and field hockey in the Soviet Union . The federation was governing these two sports since 1967, when ice hockey was split off to form the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation; ice hockey had only been introduced to the Soviet Union some twenty years earlier. The federation was one of

774-420: The best interests of the company, Scottish Hockey, and to avoid conflicts of interest. The Board ensures the executive team led by the chief executive officer (CEO) has the support and guidance to deliver its strategic objectives agreed by the Board. The Board checks and challenges the executive team against these objectives based on comprehensive reports prepared by the executive for Board meetings. The CEO and

817-506: The birth of a baby during an air raid warning; the article quoted Gwynne-Vaughan as saying, "In the old days, a new building was consecrated by the building in of a human being who had therefore died. This was consecrated yesterday by the birth of a baby!" Memorials to Chalmers Watson are recorded in the archive of Memorials to Women in Scotland. Bandy and Field Hockey Federation of the USSR Bandy and Field Hockey Federation of

860-673: The cause of medical education for women. Through her mother Chalmers Watson also claimed kinship to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , the first woman to qualify as a doctor in England, and her maternal aunt, Mary Marshall (née Anderson) had been one of the original women admitted to study medicine alongside Sophia Jex-Blake at the University of Edinburgh in 1871, later qualifying in Paris. At this time women studying medicine risked social isolation, 'contemptuous glances' and 'sneering remarks'. Chalmers Watson began her medical education in 1891 at

903-668: The discretion of the Board; via advisory groups. These are established and utilised at the discretion of the CEO and can make recommendations and give insight to the executive team; and member engagement surveys. Scottish Hockey has Memorandum and Articles, bye laws, codes and standing orders (instead of a constitution). The members of Scottish Hockey are districts, clubs and schools, who have equal voting rights at General Meetings. Former members: Soviet Union Former members: American Samoa Mona Chalmers Watson Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE , (née Geddes ; 31 May 1872 – 7 August 1936), known as Mona Chalmers Watson ,

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946-402: The executive team have delegated powers and contractual responsibility to make all operational and day-to-day decisions they feel are best for the company. These decisions are expected to be made on a reasonable basis having carried out appropriate due diligence and considering and acting in the best interests of the company. The CEO is accountable to the chair of the board and the executive team

989-581: The extension of the franchise to women on the same terms as men,'. Chalmers Watson was also closely involved in the establishment of the Women's United Services Club in Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, and at the time of her death in 1936, she was its president. Chalmers Watson had been one of the founders of the Child Assault Protest Committee (1920). In The Scotsman 's obituary notice, published 8 August 1936,

1032-524: The feeding of invalids. She published a further two books with her husband, Food and Feeding in Health and Disease (1910) and The Book of Diet (1913). While the couple ran their practice, Chalmers Watson also worked at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children . which later became Bruntsfield Hospital; she had been appointed to the medical staff in 1900, eventually becoming

1075-492: The first time, "women [had] a direct and officially recognised share in the task of our armies both at home and overseas." In a recruiting pamphlet she wrote that "this is the great opportunity for every strong, healthy and active woman not already employed on work of national importance to offer her services to her country." Although Chalmers Watson had to resign as Chief Controller of the WAAC in 1918 when one of her sons fell ill after an appendectomy , her efforts had already set

1118-431: The formation of the corps. On 7 July 1917, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was formally instituted; Macready had requested that Chalmers Watson be its first Chief Controller and senior officer some months earlier, in February 1917. She was appointed at a rank equivalent of a brigadier-general and paid an annual salary of £500. The organisation headquarters was Devonshire House , Piccadilly, London. She issued

1161-1031: The founding members of the Federation of International Bandy in 1955. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, the federation was replaced by the All Russian Bandy Federation in early 1992. For field hockey, the Russian Field Hockey Federation was created in its place. The following former states of the Soviet Union now have their own bandy federations: Russia (founded in 1992), Kazakhstan ( Kazakhstan Bandy Federation , 1993), Belarus ( Belarusian Bandy Federation , 1999), Estonia ( Estonian Bandy Association , 2002), Kyrgyzstan ( Bandy Federation of Kyrgyzstan , 2004), Latvia ( Latvia's Bandy Federation , 2006), Ukraine ( Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation , 2007), and Lithuania ( Lithuanian Bandy Association , 2008). Only listing those which have

1204-547: The management of the company's business, for which purpose they may exercise all the powers of the company pursuant to its Articles and in accordance with the Act. The directors are themselves therefore bound by the requirements of the Articles and the Act. While the Articles permit directors to be appointed to the Board by a variety of means, including by appointment of the members, all directors are then equally required to adhere to

1247-437: The relative absence of any commemoration was commented on in a letter to The Scotsman by a T.M. Chapman, who asked, There now exists, to her and to our unceasing honour, a worthy and beneficent memorial to Dr. Elsie Inglis, which will always keep her name fragrant to numberless sufferers. Why should not something on at least similar lines be devised to commemorate the admittedly grand labours of Mona Geddes? Why not, even should

1290-648: The reputation, development and growth of the game. Members can add valuable knowledge and insight into Scottish Hockey's strategic direction via a number of avenues, such as: strategic consultations, the Scottish Hockey AGM; direct communication with the Scottish Hockey executive team or via sub-committees of the Scottish Hockey Board. These can make recommendations and give insight to the board. Sub-committees are established at

1333-541: The requirements of the Articles and the Act and to therefore act independently and in the best interests of the company (i.e. “Director” is defined in Article 1 as being “a director of the Union, and includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called”). All directors appointed to the Board must comply with their statutory duties under the Act, including, but not limited to, ensuring that they act in

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1376-561: The response to her death was said to be a "stunned reaction" characterised by "the inevitable thought – What are all the women's organisations in Edinburgh going to do without her? Societies, hospitals, Queen's Nurses Boards were upheld by her support and inspired by her practical energy." She had been involved in the Queen Mary Nursing Home and the founding of the Elsie Inglis Hospital for Women as well as

1419-498: The safer feeding of children; these included issues surrounding the irradiation of milk, its feeding to premature infants, and the production of milk with a more digestible curd. Chalmers Watson died at the home of her brother, Sir Auckland Geddes, in Frensham, Rolvenden, Kent, on 7 August 1936; she was staying with her brother to recuperate from an illness with which she had been coping for some time. Some months after her death,

1462-653: The time of her death in 1936, she was president of the Medical Women's Federation , having been elected May 1935. Alexandra Mary Campbell Geddes was born in India on 31 May 1872, a daughter of Auckland Campbell Geddes (1831–1908), a civil engineer, and Christina Helen MacLeod Geddes (née Anderson; 1850–1914). Chalmers Watson was the eldest of five children in the Geddes family; among her siblings were Eric Geddes and Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes . From 1888 to 1890 she

1505-509: The wedding until she could write MD after her name. Together they had two sons, Rupert and Irvine. After their marriage, both Chalmers Watsons set up a private practice together in Edinburgh at 11 Walker St, which they shared until 1914. The Chalmers Watsons edited the Encyclopaedia Medica , a 15 volume work, the first edition of which appeared in 1900. As well as helping edit the encyclopaedia, she had contributed an article on

1548-666: Was a British physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps . The first woman to receive an MD from the University of Edinburgh , she helped found the Elsie Inglis Hospital for Women , was the first president of the Edinburgh Women's Citizen Association, a staff physician and later senior physician at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children , and co-edited the Encyclopaedia Medica with her husband, Douglas Chalmers Watson . At

1591-516: Was a cousin of suffragette doctor, Louisa Garrett Anderson and whilst in London, was a follower of Millicent Fawcett , and then herself served as a doctor for the suffragette prisoners in Perth , who had been on hunger-strike and force fed . Many leaders and key funders of the women's hospital services in World War One were drawn from medical and nursing teams who had been active across

1634-414: Was described as being "to inquire into the facts, quantitative and qualitative, in relation to the diet of the people, and report as to any changes therein which appear desirable in the light of modern advances in the knowledge of nutrition." Her political desire to further the cause of women in medicine saw her take on a number of prominent positions towards the end of her life, and she was president of both

1677-537: Was educated at St Leonard's School in St Andrews , Scotland. When she turned her focus towards the study of medicine, it was the latest in a lengthy familial interest in the profession: her mother supported Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson in the foundation of the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy (later Queen Margaret University), and been an early campaigner on behalf of

1720-563: Was established in 1907. By 1916, Chalmers Watson advocated for the creation of a corps of women volunteers who could undertake additional ancillary, non-combatant duties. At this time, Chalmers Watson's brother, Brigadier-General Sir Auckland Geddes , was the Director of Recruiting at the War Office , and he arranged for Chalmers Watson to meet with Sir Nevil Macready , the adjutant-general , on 26 January 1917 to set out her proposal for

1763-584: Was included in the National War Museum, London (now the Imperial War Museum), at the time of her death. Chalmers Watson was a noted suffragette , and while her own involvement did not include the militant actions of some of her peers, her support was not passive, whilst during the establishment of the WAAC, she had concentrated on equality in improving the levels of pay offered to the women taking over men's jobs. Chalmers Watson

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1806-700: Was set up on 18 November 1900, when ten clubs met in Glasgow to form the men's association. James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde , was elected the first president. In June 1989 the SHA merged with the SWHA to form the Scottish Hockey Union. The SHU are in charge of selecting a number of Scotland national squads. This includes the Scotland men's national field hockey team and Scotland women's national field hockey team squads, as well as Masters and Junior squads. Scottish Hockey

1849-497: Was to some extent redressed when Chalmers Watson's co-Chief Controller at the WAAC, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, formally opened a gateway to the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital commemorating Chalmers Watson's life and services to medicine and her country. A Scotsman article about the opening ceremony noted that immediately after the ribbon was cut, the gateway was "consecrated" by

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