Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, the second of the nine children of Newson Garrett (1812–1893), a grain merchant and maltster of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell (1813–1903). Her younger sister, Millicent Fawcett, became a...
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Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, the second of the nine children of Newson Garrett (1812–1893), a grain merchant and maltster of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell (1813–1903). Her younger sister, Millicent Fawcett, became a leader of the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage. She was also the cousin of Elizabeth Dunnell who married Richard Garrett III the famous owner of Richard Garrett & Sons. Elizabeth was educated at home and at a private school. In 1860 she resolved to study medicine, an almost unheard-of thing for a woman at that time, and regarded by some as almost indecent. Having obtained some more or less irregular instruction at the Middlesex Hospital, London, she was refused admission as a full student both there and at many other medical...
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