Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access...
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Katharine Jex-Blake (1860–1951), British classicist Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), British physician, teacher and feminist Thomas Jex-Blake (1832–1915)...
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was formed in 1874 by an association of pioneering women physicians Sophia Jex-Blake, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Blackwell and Elizabeth Blackwell...
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others joined, the following women became known as the Edinburgh Seven: Sophia Jex-Blake Isabel Thorne Edith Pechey Matilda Chaplin Helen Evans Mary Anderson...
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composer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871), American painter Sofia Hayat (born 1974), British-Indian model and actress Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912)...
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January 1832, the son of lawyer Thomas Jex-Blake and the brother of Sophia Jex-Blake, who was a pioneer in women doctors in the United Kingdom. He was educated...
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Arthur John Jex-Blake FRCP (31 July 1873 – 16 August 1957) was a British physician, specializing in heart and lung diseases. After education at Eton,...
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women (who drowned near Whitby in 1915) and Arthur John Jex-Blake. Her paternal aunt Sophia Jex-Blake was the first practising female doctor in Scotland,...
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admittance. A companion to Garrett in this effort was the lesser known Sophia Jex-Blake. While both are considered "outstanding" medical figures of the late...
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the life of Sophia Jex-Blake". A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. 14 (2): 222–240. doi:10.1080/08989575.1999.10815220. "The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake". The Scotsman...
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S2CID 38651601. Porrirr, A.G. (1919). "Reviewed work: The life of Sophia Jex-Blake, by Margaret Todd". Political Science Quarterly. 34 (1): 180. JSTOR 2141537...
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women's campaign, and also led to a well documented libel case against Sophia Jex-Blake. On 18 November 1870, the women were to attend an anatomy exam at Surgeons'...
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led by Sophia Jex-Blake, who became known as the Edinburgh Seven (Mary Anderson, Emily Bovell, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey...
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as an essential part of the compulsory medical curriculum. In 1869 Sophia Jex-Blake was reluctantly accepted to attend a limited number of classes in the...
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in London with Sophia Jex-Blake, who had been a student at the New York Infirmary years earlier. Blackwell had doubts about Jex-Blake and thought that...
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businessman Alison Grieve, CEO of Safetray Products Ltd (2009 – present) Sophia Jex-Blake, (1840 – 1912), English physician, teacher and feminist who established...
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Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) 1912 – Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (b. 1840) 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot,...
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947; -3.184 The Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women was founded by Sophia Jex-Blake in Edinburgh, Scotland, in October 1886, with support from the National...
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nonconformist minds - a deep and serious love of learning." After Sophia Jex-Blake's sole application to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh...
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Square. In the north choir aisle, the bronze plaque commemorating Sophia Jex-Blake (died 1912) and the stone plaque to James Nicoll Ogilvie (1928) were...
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Cordery. Her aunt was Sophia Jex-Blake, a pioneer in the fight for women's access to higher education; her sister, Henrietta Jex-Blake, would go on to be...
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Medicine for Women (founded 1874 by Sophia Jex-Blake) Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women (founded 1886 by Sophia Jex-Blake) First Pavlov State Medical University...
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Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886. She stood up to Jex-Blake over a disciplinary matter, being dismissed from...
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matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. Led by Sophia Jex-Blake, they began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869...
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medicine. Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women is founded by Dr Sophia Jex-Blake. July 9 – Charles Hall files a United States patent for the Hall–Héroult...
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one of the school's governors. Violet Buxton OBE was the niece of Sophia Jex-Blake, suffragist and first woman medical graduate in UK. On leaving Cambridge...
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Her godmother was Violet Jex-Blake, niece of the suffragist and first female medical graduate in the UK, Sophia Jex-Blake. Chitty was privately educated...
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Charles-François Sturm Wollaston Medal: Andre Hubert Dumont January 21 – Sophia Jex-Blake (died 1912), English physician. February 5 John Boyd Dunlop (died 1921)...
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Seven (Mary Anderson, Emily Bovell, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey as well as Thorne). During this time, she won first prize...
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panic in the United States. October – The 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School...
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