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. 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.
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9 June 1836 Whitechapel, London, England
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Died |
17 December 1917 (aged 81) Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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