Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, CBE was a Scottish novelist and poet. Often referred to as the doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote over 90 books covering a wide range of genre including historical, science fiction, travelogue and autobiography. With her husband Gilbert Richard Mitchison becoming a life peer in 1964, she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, but never used the title herself. She was appointed CBE in 1981.
Naomi Mary Margaret Haldane was born at Edinburgh, the daughter and younger child of the physiologist John Scott Haldane and his wife Kathleen Trotter. Naomis parents came from different political backgrounds, her father being a Liberal and her mother from a Tory and proimperialist family. However, both families were of landed stock, and the Haldane family had been feudal barons of Gleneagles since the 13th century, but were nevertheless known for their achievements in other spheres. Today, the best known member of the family is probably Naomis elder brother, the biologist J. B. S. Haldane , but in her youth her paternal uncle Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, twice Lord Chancellor , was better known.
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