Mary Edith Pechey was one of the first women medical doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital a
Edith Pechey plaque Jan 2022
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Ed
Portrait by Samuel Laurence 1865
A plaque commemorating the birthplace of Sophia Jex-Blake
Jex-Blake's application for matriculation, submitted to the University of Edinburgh, is held in their archives.
Bruntsfield Hospital, converted to private flats, 2010