Women who qualified as medical doctors in the United Kingdom

The database includes 1481 women doctors who gained a UK registrable qualification between 1877 and the end of 1914. The database includes women’s birth and death years, their places of birth and death, training institution(s) attended, qualifications gained, and basic information on their social origins and careers, marriage (if any), war service, missionary employment and connections to India and China. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) and Elizabeth Garrett, later Anderson (1836-1917) who joined the Register before 1870, were excluded. The end date avoids the changes wrought by the First World War, when a rapid expansion in women medical students took place: London medical colleges temporarily admitted women, to compensate for the great reduction in numbers of male applicants.