St Leonards School London School of Medicine for Women
Known for
Military hospitals Campaigning for women's rights and social reform
Relatives
Flora Murray (partner) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (mother) Alan Garrett Anderson (brother)
Medical career
Profession
Physician and surgeon
Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, whose biography she wrote 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 Fawcett, was a British suffragist. Her partner was fellow doctor and suffragette Flora Murray. Her cousin was Dr Mona Chalmers Watson who also supported suffragettes and founded the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.[1]
^"Back in the day: Mona Chalmers - general in battle with the sexists". The National. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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