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Louisa Garrett Anderson


Born
in Aldeburgh, The United Kingdom
July 28, 1873

Died
November 15, 1943

Genre
Biography, Nonfiction


Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer.

Anderson was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, whom she wrote a biography of in 1939. Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, was a British suffragist.

Anderson never married, but lived with her partner and colleague, Dr Flora Murray. They are buried at the Holy Trinity Church, near to their home in Penn, Buckinghamshire. ...more

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