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who was the first british doctor​

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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Not to be confused with Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson or Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon.[1] She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (detail of painting).jpg

Detail from a portrait of Garrett Anderson circa 1900

Born

Elizabeth Garrett

9 June 1836

Whitechapel, Commercial Road, London, England

Died

17 December 1917 (aged 81)

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

Education

Studied privately with physicians in London hospitals

Society of Apothecaries

Known for

First woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain

Creating a medical school for women

Relatives

Louisa Garrett Anderson (daughter)

Alan Garrett Anderson (son)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (sister)

Agnes Garrett (sister)

Newson Garrett (father)

Philippa Fawcett (niece)

Rhoda Garrett (cousin)

Medical career

Profession

Physician

Institutions

New Hospital for Women

London School of Medicine for Women