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About Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female 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.
Everything about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson →- Occupation
- politician, physician, suffragist, writer
- Position held
- mayor of Aldeburgh
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- June 9, 1836
- Died
- December 17, 1917