Lady Florence Dixie: The aristocrat who fought for women’s football
As the Women’s World Cup is held in Australia and New Zealand, many may be unaware of the debt the sport owes to an aristocrat from southern Scotland. Lady Florence Dixie was born in 1855 at Kinmount near Cummertrees in Dumfriesshire. One of twins, she was the youngest of six children of the eighth marquess of Queensberry….