Physician

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Mona Chalmers Watson

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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Sources
History company blog post
Edinburgh still failing Elsie Inglis
Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson
Wikipedia Biography

Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake

Title: 
Doctor
Dates: 
Born 21 January 1840, died 7 January 1912

Sophia Jex-Blake was the daughter of Maria Cubitt, and Thomas Jex-Blake, retired barrister. Described as ‘excessively clever’, she was unhappy with the lack of educational opportunities available to her as a woman.

She studied at Queen’s College, London, from 1858, qualifying as a teacher and giving her services free to organisations providing education to poor women and children. In 1862, she took a temporary post in Mannheim, Germany, but was unhappy there.

Sources
The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Based on an entry by Nicki Scott
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