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Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917)

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Physician and Feminist, Britain's first Female Doctor
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    1836  CEElizabeth Garrett (1836-1917), Physician and the first English woman doctor, was born in Whitechapel, London, one of 12 children of Newson and Louise Dunnell.
     1841  CEWhen Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was five years old, her father, a strong advocate of education, became a successful merchant and was able to send his daughters to a good boarding school.
     1859  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson met Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first woman doctor. As a result, Anderson wanted to become a doctor.
     1860  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson enrolled as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in London.
     1865  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson qualified as the first British woman doctor.
     1866  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson opened her own hospital, the St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children. This later to become the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
     1872  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson opened the New Hospital for Women, a London infirmary entirely staffed by females, for females.
     1874  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson co-founded the London School of Medicine for Women.
     1902  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson retired to Aldeburgh.
     1908  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson returned to her hometown of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, and made history again by being elected mayor, the first woman in Britain to hold the post.
     1917  CEElizabeth Garrett Anderson died, in Suffolk.
 
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