Elizabeth Fish

Elizabeth Mary Jane Fish (22 December 1860 - 21 March 1944) was a schoolteacher and the first elected woman president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, the oldest teachers' trade union in the world. Early life and education Elizabeth was born at 83 North Woodside Road in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1860 to Jane McNaughton and William Fish, a city missionary. William was chaplain at Sharp's Institution in Perth and it was here that Elizabeth was schooled. Elizabeth returned to Glasgow to become a pupil teacher, starting out at Henderson Street public school where she came first in Scotland in the Queen's Scholarship examination. Following this, she went on to study at the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College.