Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: 9th June

Todayinscience says Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born in 1836) was an  "English physician and activist who sought the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine."

"She became the first woman to be licensed as a medical practitioner in Britain, despite originally being refused admission by the medical schools’ policy not to train women as doctors. She had to study medicine privately, under some of the country’s leading physicians; at times she was forced to dissect cadavers in her own room because she was forbidden to use hospital facilities. In 1865 she qualified as a medical practitioner by examination of the Society of Apothecaries. The following year, she founded the St. Mary’s Dispensary for Women in London. She was also the first female member of the British Medical Association" 

She was a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. 

She and her sister Millicent were active in th womens suffrage movement. She had two daughters. Louisa (1873–1943) was also a doctor and feminist activist.