About Elsie Inglis & SWH | randomjottingsfromauldreekie's Blog. Dr Elsie Inglis – Unsung Hero Hello, my name is Dr Alan Alexander from Scotland, UK. I first heard about our local hero, Dr Elsie Inglis, as a young child at an Edinburgh primary school 50+ years ago. I never dreamt that I would one day, so many years later, be campaigning for official recognition for her and the other women who served with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals that she founded in World War One. Remembered and revered in Serbia they and the humanitarian work that they did are however virtually unknown in the United Kingdom.
My interest in the Elsie Inglis story was re-awakened in July 2013 on hearing, from a deeply upset neighbour, of the neglected state of her memorial in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Thanks to the subsequent “Edinburgh Evening News” newspaper coverage and the generosity of Scotmid Co-op this was sorted out. By the way, I have not provided any personal biography because this blog is not intended to be about me. Like this: Like Loading... Elsie Inglis. Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist. Education[edit] She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to John Forbes David Inglis who worked in the Indian civil service as Chief Commissioner of Oudh. She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son.
After a private education her decision to study medicine was delayed by her mother's death in 1885, when she felt obliged to stay in Edinburgh with her father. However, the next year the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women was opened by Dr Sophia Jex-Blake and Inglis started her studies there. After founding her own breakaway medical college as a reaction to Jex-Blake's uncompromising ways, she completed her training under Sir William Macewen at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Medical practice[edit] Elsie Inglis in 1916 on her return from Serbia World War I[edit] Elsie Inglis. Elsie Inglis. Elsie Inglis - eNotes.com Reference.
Elsie Inglis - 20th and 21st centuries - Scotlands History. Elsie Inglis was a Scots doctor and suffragist. She worked to set up the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was born in Naini Tal, India, as her father worked in the Indian civil service. Her family later returned to Scotland and Elsie studied to become a doctor at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women that had been opened by Dr Sophia Jex-Blake. Elsie gained qualifications from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh, and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In 1894 she opened The Hospice - a maternity hospital for the poor in Edinburgh. When Elsie first suggested teams of women doctors and nurses be sent to the Western Front during the Great War, the War Office replied ‘My good lady, go home and sit still.' Undaunted, Elsie raised thousands of pounds and worked to set up the Scottish Women's Hospitals Unit.
Elsie Inglis. Elsie Maud Inglis (1864-1917), the British suffragette and pioneer of medicine, established a hospital fully staffed by women for use by the French government during the First World War (the British government having earlier turned down an offer of her services). Born in India in 1864 Inglis and her family returned to their former homeland of Scotland upon the retirement of her father when she was 14, the family choosing to settle in Edinburgh. Having studied medicine at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women Inglis subsequently established her own medical college (with the moral and financial backing of her father). She qualified as a doctor and secured a teaching appointment at the New Hospital for Women under the latter's founder, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. A keen suffragette Inglis was later to found her own maternity hospital entirely staffed by women. In 1906 Inglis played a notable role in the establishment of the Scottish Women's Suffrage Federation.
Elsie Inglis by Eva Shaw McLaren.