Louisa Garrett Anderson
Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE ( born July 28, 1873 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, † November 11, 1943 in Penn, Buckinghamshire ) was a British physician 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 Scottish shipowner James George Skelton Anderson ( † 1907) and his wife Elizabeth Garrett ( 1836-1917 ), the first female doctor in the United Kingdom as well as the first female member of the British Medical Association ( BMA) had.
She studied medicine at St Leonards School in St Andrews and at the London School of Medicine for Women. Later she worked as a doctor in her own private practice and in hospitals. Through her mother and her aunt, Millicent Garrett Fawcett DBE (1847-1929), a well-known women's rights activist, Louisa learned activists for women's suffrage know and joined the Women's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) on. After a first arrest in 1912, triggered by a verbal attack, Anderson became increasingly radical in the fight for women's rights.
During the First World War, Anderson served in France and belonged to the Women's Hospital Corps ( WHC ) to. Together with her colleague and later partner, Dr. Flora Murray, she founded hospitals for the French soldiers in Paris, Wimereux. She wrote many medical articles and published a biography ( " Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836-1917 " ) about her mother in 1939. Louisa Garrett Anderson died of a heart attack and was in the cemetery of Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Buckinghamshire, buried.