Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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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 S
Detail from a portrait of Garrett Anderson circa 1900
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
Newson Garrett
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Newson Garrett was an English maltster, instrumental in the revival of the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, of which he became mayor at the end of his life. His daughter Elizabeth became the first woman in
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
…board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. Elizabeth was born in Whitechapel, London, and was the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett (1812–1893), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa (born Dunnell; c. 1813–1903), from London. Her paternal ancestors had been ironworkers in East…
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His memorial in the Lady chapel of Aldeburgh parish church