Early Life
Rushforth was born in West Lothian, Scotland, in 1885 and educated at the Edinburgh Ladies' College. She was a member of the Bartholomew family, farmers on the Hopetoun Estate since about 1650.
Rushforth graduated with an MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1908.
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