Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Womens Hospitals.

She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to John Forbes David Inglis who worked in the Indian civil service as Chief Commissioner of Oudh through the East India Company. She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son. John used his position in India to encourage native economic development, spoke out against infanticide and promoted female education. After a private education her decision to study medicine was delayed by her mothers death in 1885, when she felt obliged to stay in Edinburgh with her father. In 1887 the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women was opened by Dr Sophia JexBlake and Inglis started her studies there. After founding her own breakaway medical college as a reaction to JexBlakes uncompromising ways, she completed her training under Sir William MacEwen at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

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