Agnes Hay Somerville "Rhoda" Fothergill[1] (1929 – 19 June 2019)[1][2][3] was a Scottish historian, educator and archaeologist. She published several historical guides to Perth, Scotland. Her focus areas were Old Perth, the Greyfriars Burial Ground and people of 19th-century Perth.[4] She was the longest-serving member of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science (PSNS). Her contribution as a historian was recognised with a British Empire Medal in 2014.
In 1968, three years after joining the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, she was appointed its secretary, a role in which she remained for 47 years. She was the society's longest-serving member at the time of her death. Many of her papers, such as A History of King James VI Hospital, were published in the journals of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science (PSNS).[4]
In 2017, she was made Honorary Life President of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science in recognition of her 50 years of service to its council.[10]
Fothergill died in 2019, aged 90.[11] Her funeral was held at Craigie and Moncreiffe Church in the Craigie area of Perth, where she had lived, in Pitheavlis Crescent, for over sixty years.[1]
^"Special award for founder member". Perthshire Advertiser. 7 September 2007. p. 16.
^Rhoda Fothergill's British Empire Medal is held in the Rhoda Fothergill collection, MS347/5/4/1, in the Perth and Kinross Archive.
^Certificate awarding Rhoda Fothergill Life Presidency of Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences is held in the Rhoda Fothergill collection, MS347/5/4/3, in the Perth and Kinross Archive.
