Ruth (Elizabeth) Scrimgeour

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Elizabeth Ruth Scrimgeour

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Birthplace: Highgate, Greater London, UK
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Daughter of Alexander Scrimgeour and Annie Esther Scrimgeour
Sister of Annie Enid Fox; Ethel Scrimgeour; Alexander Caron Scrimgeour; Maud Scrimgeour; Isabella Forshall and 2 others

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About Ruth (Elizabeth) Scrimgeour

In 1881 was a 14 year old scholar living with her family at 1 Queens Gate, Kensington, London (England Census)

She liked gypsies; she lived at Woolhouse near Aunty Des. Elizabeth reared horses and owned a riding school at Selsey. Pupils from Miss Scrimgeour's* Riding School- 1932, gallop along the sands at Selsey. She- by this time in her 70's ran one of the finest and largest riding schools in the country attracting pupils for all over Britain. 'Miss S. must be the oldest woman in the country teaching children to ride and regularly takes about 40 pupils across the firm sands for morning exercise. She breeds all the ponies herself and always wears a sou'wester.'(Fox Sept.14th.32.)

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