Louisa Garrett Anderson

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Louisa Anderson, 1914

Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE (born July 28, 1873 in Aldeburgh , Suffolk , † November 11, 1943 in Penn , Buckinghamshire ) was a British doctor and suffragette . She was the director of the Women's Hospital Corps and a member of the Royal Society of Medicine .

Life

Louisa Anderson was the youngest daughter of three children of the Scottish shipowner James George Skelton Anderson († 1907) and his wife Elizabeth Garrett (1836–1917), the first female doctor in the United Kingdom and the first female member of the British Medical Association (BMA) was.

She studied medicine at St Leonards School in St Andrews and the London School of Medicine for Women . She later worked as a doctor in her private practice and in hospitals. Through her mother and aunt, Millicent Garrett Fawcett DBE (1847-1929), a well-known women's rights activist , Louisa met activists for women's suffrage and joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). After a first arrest in 1912, triggered by a verbal attack, Anderson became increasingly radical in the fight for women's rights.

During World War I , Anderson served in France and was a member of the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC). Together with her colleague and later partner, Dr. Flora Murray , she founded hospitals for the French soldiers in Paris and Wimereux . She wrote many medical articles and published a biography ( "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836–1917" ) of her mother in 1939. Louisa Garrett Anderson died of a heart attack and was buried in Holy Trinity Church Cemetery , Buckinghamshire.

Titles and awards

  • 1917 Commander of the British Empire (CBE)

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Louisa Garrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldeburgh , Suffolk
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1943
Place of death Penn , Buckinghamshire