Louisa Garrett Anderson

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Louisa Garrett Anderson
Born	28 July 1873(1873-07-28) Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
Died	11 November 1943 (aged 70)
Profession	Physician
Known for	Military hospitals Campaigning for women's rights and social reform
Education	St Leonards School London School of Medicine for Women
Notable prizes	CBE
Relations	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Mother)

Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE (28 July 1873 – 11 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. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett was a British suffragist. Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women's Hospital Corps and a Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine

Louisa was educated at St Leonards School in St. Andrews, Fife and at the London School of Medicine for Women located at the Royal Free Hospital.

She was one of the three children of James George Skelton Anderson of the Orient Steamship Company co-owned by his uncle Arthur Anderson, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who was the first woman to qualify as a doctor, co-founder of the London School of Medicine for Women and Britain's the first elected woman Mayor (of Aldeburgh).

Louisa worked as a doctor in private practice and hospitals. In 1912, she was imprisoned, briefly, for her suffragette activities. She wrote many medical articles and published a biography of her mother in 1939.

In the First World War she served in France with the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC). Along with her friend and colleague Dr.Flora Murray, she established military hospitals for the French Army in Paris and Wimereux. Their proposals were at first rejected by the British authorities, but eventually the WHC became established at the military hospital in Endell Street, Holborn, London staffed entirely by women, from chief surgeon to orderlies.

She never married and is buried at the Holy Trinity Church with her friend and colleague, Dr. Flora Murray near to her home in Penn, Buckinghamshire. The inscription on her grave stone says Louisa Garrett Anderson, C.B.E., M.D., Chief Surgeon Women's Hospital Corps 1914-1919. Daughter of James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Born 28th. July 1873, died November 15th. 1943. We have been gloriously happy. ^[1]