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Chrystal Macmillan was born in Edinburgh in 1882. After an education at St Andrews and Edinburgh University, she became a lawyer.
In 1908 she became the first woman to plead before the House of Lords when she advocated that women graduates should be given the vote. Over the next few years she appeared before several committees of enquiry on matters of concern to women including those on street offences and unemployment insurance. Macmillan was also involved in the campaign against the law that resulted in women losing their citizenship when they married a foreigner.
On the outbreak of the First World War Macmillan organised held for Belgian refugees. Active in the attempts to obtain a negotiated peace, Macmillan was an organizer of the Women Peace Conference at the Hague and was secretary of the International Women Suffrage Alliance (1913-1920). After the Armistice Macmillan was a delegate at the Paris Peace Conference.
Called to the Bar in 1924, Macmillan unsuccessfully stood as a Liberal for North Edinburgh in the 1935 General Election. Chrystal Macmillan died in 1937.
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