Louisa Garrett Anderson
| Louisa Garrett Anderson | |
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| Born |
28 July 1873 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England |
| Died | 15 November 1943 (aged 70) Penn, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Education |
St Leonards School London School of Medicine for Women |
| Known for |
Military hospitals Campaigning for women's rights and social reform |
| Relatives |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (mother) Alan Garrett Anderson (brother) Millicent Fawcett (maternal aunt) |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Physician |
| Notable prizes | CBE |
Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett was a British suffragist. Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC) and a Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine
She was one of the three children of James George Skelton Anderson of the Orient Steamship Company co-owned by his uncle Arthur Anderson, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who was the first woman to qualify as a doctor, co-founder of the London School of Medicine for Women and Britain's first elected woman Mayor (of Aldeburgh).
She was educated at St Leonards School in St. Andrews, Fife and at the London School of Medicine for Women located at the Royal Free Hospital, where she worked as a doctor in private practice and hospitals.
In 1912, she was imprisoned in Holloway, briefly, for her suffragette activities which included breaking a window by throwing a brick. She wrote many medical articles and published a biography of her mother in 1939.
In the First World War she served in France with the Women's Hospital Corps. Along with her friend and colleague Dr. Flora Murray, she established military hospitals for the French Army in Paris and Wimereux. Their proposals were at first rejected by the British authorities, but eventually the WHC became established at the military hospital, Endell Street Military Hospital, Holborn, London staffed entirely by women, from chief surgeon to orderlies.
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