Women / Persons ~ P12759
Dr. Elsie Inglis
Alternate Names:
- The Lady with the Torch
- Elsie Maud Inglis
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 16 August 1864 - 26 November 1917
Types:
- Activist
- Medicine, doctor
- Scottish
- Suffragette
Note: Born in India to British civil servants; educated at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women and the Glasgow infirmary; founded maternity hospital in Edinburgh; secretary of the the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage; helped to establish the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service Committee in WWI and served the French war effort in Serbia after the English War Office rejected her offer