Doctor
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Laura Stewart Sandeman
Submitted by Alison McCall on 22 February 2024 - 2:39pm
Revised: 22 February 2024 - 2:48pm — Alison McCall
Title:
Doctor
Dates:
1862- 22 February 1929
Laura Stewart Sandeman was born in Bradshaw, Greater Manchester, in 1862. She grew up in Stanley, Perthshire, where her father owned a mill.
She studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1900, and became a Doctor of Medicine in 1903.
She set up a medical practice in Aberdeen in 1905 and took an active role in social welfare and helping the plight of the poor, particularly in the east end of the city and in Torry.
Ann Mitchell
Submitted by Alison McCall on 5 January 2021 - 11:49am
Revised: 5 January 2021 - 1:07pm — Alison McCall
Title:
Doctor
Other names:
Her name is variously spelled Ann, Anne and Annie.
Dates:
14 December 1885 - ?
Anne Mitchell was born on 14 Dec 1885 at 2 Paton's Lane Dundee. Her parents, David Kinnear Mitchell, jute factory manager, and Susan Elder Rae, had married in Dundee in 1884. She was their eldest child, and had two younger brothers, Thomas and James, and three younger sisters, Helen, Maud and Katherine.
By 1901 the family had moved to Blairgowrie.
In 1911, she was living with her aunt Helen Mitchell and studying medicine. She appears as Annie Mitchell in the 1911 census.
Ann Mitchell graduated in medicine from St Andrews University in 1912.
Sybil Lonie Lewis
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 November 2020 - 12:57pm
Revised: 24 November 2020 - 11:33am — admin
Title:
Doctor
Dates:
1874 - 10 March 1918.
Born in the third quarter of 1874, in Chester, Sybil Lewis was the seventh of nine children of the Rev George Lewis and Catherine Lewis.
Her eldest brother Charles became a doctor, and Sybil wished to do likewise. However it was extremely difficult for women to become doctors and she had to study at both Edinburgh and Dublin to qualify.
Her obituary in the BMA reads:
Agnes Valentine Thomson
Submitted by Alison McCall on 27 June 2017 - 6:36pm
Revised: 14 February 2024 - 9:03am — Alison McCall
Title:
Dr.
Other names:
Her maiden surname was Baxter
Dates:
1880-1952
Agnes Valentine Baxter was born in Brechin on 13 May 1880, the eldest child of James Baxter, Master Builder, and Robina Adamson.
She was Dux of Brechin High School and was one of the first women at Aberdeen University to graduate in arts, medicine and science: M.A.,
1902; B.Sc, 1905; M.B., 1907 She was awarded the Fife Jamieson medal in Anatomy.
She married Benjamin Thomson in 1907; they had two daughters.
During the First World War she was appointed
as the Anaesthetist and Lecturer at Aberdeen’s first Sick
Children’s and Maternity Hospital situated at Castle
Elizabeth Ness McBean Ross
Submitted by Alison McCall on 8 November 2015 - 5:43pm
Revised: 8 November 2015 - 6:06pm — Alison McCall
Title:
Doctor
Dates:
14 February 1878 - 14 February 1915
Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross was born on 14th February 1878, in London, the daughter of Donald Alexander MacBean Ross and Elizabeth Wilson Ross. She grew up in Tain. In 1896 she went to Glasgow to study medicine at Queen Margaret College. She graduated in 1901.
Her first post was in the East Ham area of London, followed by a spell in Colonsay. She then went to Persia. Apart from a trip to Japan, working as a ship's doctor, she worked in Persia until the outbreak of the First World War.
Margaret Fairlie
Submitted by Alison McCall on 5 November 2015 - 9:46pm
Revised: 9 January 2024 - 11:32am — Alison McCall
Title:
Doctor, Professor
Dates:
1891-1963
The daughter of James Fairlie, farmer, and Marjorie Mill Moug, she was born in 1891.
She was educated at Harris Academy and St Andrews University.
After graduating she held posts in Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh and Manchester, where she started to specialise in gynaecology.
She returned to Dundee where she worked in Dundee Royal Infirmary, and also taught in Dundee Medical School.
She pioneered the clinical use of radium in Scotland.
Mona Chalmers Watson
Submitted by chris holme on 11 June 2015 - 9:39pm
Revised: 21 September 2015 - 2:26pm — admin
Title:
Dr, CBE
Other names:
Alexandra Mary Geddes; Mona Geddes, Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson
Dates:
Born 1872, died August 7, 1936
One of the first (if not the first) women to qualify as a doctor from Edinburgh University (MB CM 1896 and MD 1898)
Active suffragist. Supporter of various causes including the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital which opened in Spring Gardens, Edinburgh in 1925.
First head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917)
First president of the Edinburgh Women Citizens' Association (1918)
Medical practitioner and pioneering nutritionist
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Flora Murray
Submitted by Fiona Dean on 31 July 2013 - 8:48am
Revised: 4 August 2016 - 9:08pm — Margaret Fergus...
Title:
Dr
Dates:
1869 - 1923
Flora was born at Murraythwaite in Dumfries on 8 May 1869. Her parents were landed propietor John Murray, a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Grace Harriet Graham.
Flora was a medical pioneer and a suffragette, becoming a member of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1908. She trained at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW), finishing her course at Durham.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Submitted by Ann Galliard on 23 April 2013 - 3:08pm
Revised: 4 July 2016 - 8:02pm — Alison McCall
Title:
Dr.
Dates:
3 Feb 1821 - 1910
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England and moved to America with her family aged 12. Her father's death in 1838 meant that Elizabeth and her sisters had to help support the family, initially by teaching.
She became the first woman to study medicine in America, graduating in 1849.
In the 1860s she organized a unit of female field doctors during the Civil War
Kirsty Semple
Submitted by Alison McCall on 3 November 2012 - 8:32am
Revised: 3 November 2012 - 10:21am — Alison McCall
Title:
Dr.
Other names:
Her husband's surname was Gibson.
Dates:
1924- 9 May 1995
Born in Edinburgh in 1924, Kirsty Semple graduated in medicine. She ran a G.P. practice in Dundee from 1951-1981. She married Ian S. Gibson in 1958 and they had two sons. A visit to Canada inspired her to set up Tayside Breast Care and Mastectomy Group in 1978. She also helped set up Tayside Council on Addictions. She was an elder and acting beadle at the Steeple Church and ran a tea room for the homeless. Kirsty Semple died on 9 May 1995.
