Elizabeth Garrett was a physician born on June 9th 1836 in Whitechapel, London. Garrett overcame initial disapproval by her father to obtain a medical education, although she faced a raft of difficulties along the way.
In 1862, she became the…
Ettie Stewart Steele was a chemist born on October 5th, 1890, in Dunfermline. She matriculated at the University of St Andrews in 1908, where she received an M.A. in 1912, a BSc in 1914 and then a PhD in 1919.
She was the first female candidate to…
Frances Helen Melville was a suffragist and lifelong campaigner for women's education. Melville graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1897 with a first-class Master of Arts in Philosophy. She stayed on as a tutor for 3 years before working as…
Frances Melville was a promoter of higher education for women in Scotland and suffragist, born on October 11th, 1873. She became one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh in 1892, after the Universities (Scotland) Act of…
