Physician
Mona Chalmers Watson
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
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
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.