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Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown

14th January 1930 - 15th December 2011


Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown, the only child of George Stuart Brown and Janet McAslan Steele, was born on 14th January 1930 at 11h 25m pm, at Dunrowan, Langbank, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

L to R: Janet Stuart Brown MS Steele; Mary Ebitt Rainey, Frances’s governess; Leslie Baird, holding Baby Frances; Elizabeth (Betty) Stuart Brown and Helen Eva Baird MS Stuart Brown (photograph taken 1930)

Frances, as she came to be known, was evacuated during World War II and stayed on Lord Lithgow’s estate, Ormsary, on the Knapdale Peninsula, Argyll, for almost three years. A letter received from Lady Lithgow at the conclusion of this sojourn has been preserved:

Lady Lithgow to Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown, 27 April 1943

Frances next attended St Leonard’s School, St Andrews:

UNIV. OXONIENSIS

DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

DELEGACY OF LOCAL EXAMINATIONS

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that

Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown
of St. Leonards School, St. Andrews

born the 14th day of January in the year 1930,
was awarded the OXFORD SCHOOL CERTIFICATE in July 1946,
having satisfied the examiners in the examination as a whole and
attained the standard shown (pass, credit, or very good) in the
following seven subjects:

English Language      Credit

English Literature      Credit

History      Credit

Latin      Very Good

French      Very Good

Mathematics      Pass

Art      Credit

CENTRE AND INDEX NUMBER: St. Andrews 55

Signed on behalf of the above-named examining body

R. W. Livingstone     

VICE-CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY     

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION accept the examination as reaching the approved standard.

Signed on behalf of the Ministry of Education

G. G. Williams     

PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY     

She was subsequently married to Norman David McIntyre on 23rd October 1956 at Langbank Church, Langbank and divorced in 1982. On this occasion she was referred to as ‘Elizabeth Frances Stuart-Brown’. She was designated as a ‘Secretary (Spinster)’ and her usual address was Dunrowan, Langbank. Her age was entered as 26.

Frances had been introduced to Norman in Nyasaland by her cousin Wilson, Charles’s son. Wilson knew Norman as they worked together as tea planters.

Frances & Norman in Egypt, 1964

Frances with baby Lulu in Kenya, c. 1959
Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown died on 15th December 2011 at 1h 50m am, at Bannockburn Hospital, Stirling. The cause of death was certified as pulmonary fibrosis. Her funeral took place on the 21st, at Norrieston Parish Church, Thornhill, where she was laid to rest in the churchyard. Lone piper, Ewan Brown, a distant relation by marriage, played a lament, Flowers of the Forest.