Elizabeth Crichton was a British philanthropist who founded the Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries. She had wanted to create a university but it was opened instead as the Crichton Institution for Lunatics in 1839. It now holds part of several universities and in her memory: a cathedral like church and her statue.
- Occupation
- founder
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1779
- Died
- October 11, 1862
