Elizabeth Garrett Anderson LSA MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and feminist the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women the first dean of a British medical school the first female M.D. in France the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and as Mayor of Aldeburgh the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.
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birth date
1836-06-09
birth place
London, Whitechapel
death date
1917-12-17
education
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
institution
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital, London School of Medicine for Women
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