Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English medical doctor and sister of Millicent Fawcett. She is known for being the first woman to qualify as a doctor and surgeon in Britain and for starting a medical school for women. She was also the first female mayor in Britain. She had three children. She taught herself French to go to the University of Paris.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Media

• Her parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett in their old age; from What I Remember by Millicent Garrett Fawcett

• A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the Faculty of Medicine, Paris

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  Caricature of Garrett Anderson published in 1872

• Garrett Anderson circa 1889

• Garrett Anderson as mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908

• The Hospital for Women, now occupied by Unison, in 2018

• Garrett Anderson with Emmeline Pankhurst on Black Friday, 18 November 1910

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  Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett 1836-1917

• The Garrett Anderson Centre, Ipswich Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 1238078.jpg

  The Garrett Anderson Centre, Ipswich Hospital