Died: April 21, 2020.
ELIZABETH May Wilson LLB, NP, MAR, who has died aged 73, was one of Scotland’s youngest-ever solicitors, a tribunal chair, and university tutor, before a remarkable career addition saw her become a professional reflexologist.
She was born in London in November, 1946 to Scottish parents, and raised and educated in Wishaw. An outstanding pupil at Wishaw High School, she gained her LLB degree at Glasgow University in 1966, aged just 19, too young to be a practising lawyer.
She then spent a year in America, studying sociology, psychology, politics and philosophy at Chicago’s DePaul University, a renowned research institution.
On her return to this country, she became a law apprentice with the old Glasgow Corporation and at long last was able to be formally enrolled as a solicitor in October, 1969.
She joined H. W. Nimmo & Co, a Wishaw law firm, before setting up her own business then…