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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Physician
1836 – 1917
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Who was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson?
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD, was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first female M.D. in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.
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- Born
- Jun 9, 1836
Whitechapel - Also known as
- Mayor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Parents
- Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Employment
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
- London School of Medicine for Women
(1874 - )
- Lived in
- Suffolk
- Died
- Dec 17, 1917
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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