Mabel Hardie

Mabel Hardie (1866–1916) was a British doctor. She was a war surgeon at the Scottish Women's Hospital and is named in the First World War roll of honour.[1]

Mabel Hardie
Mabel Hardie in her first year at Girton College
Born1866
Marple, Cheshire, England
Died1916
EducationMA MB ChB
OccupationDoctor

Biography

She was born in 1866 at Marple, then in Cheshire, England. She was arrested for demonstrating in favour of women's suffrage.[2][3]

Hardie studied Natural Sciences at Girton College, University of Cambridge, between 1887 and 1890. Because of her work in Cambridge she was awarded an MA by Trinity College Dublin and then went on to train as a doctor at Glasgow University. There she obtained the M.B., Ch. B degree of Glasgow University.[3][4] She finally settled to a practice at Hampstead, in November 1908.[4] Mabel Hardie was a member of the West London Ethical Society, a forerunner to Humanists UK.[5]

When the First World War broke out she joined the Girton and Newnham unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, which was treating soldiers active in France. She served at Troyes in Northern France but was forced to return to London because of poor health. She died of breast cancer in 1916.[3][6]

References
  1. "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Surgeon Mabel Hardie". universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  2. "Dr Mabel Hardie / Database - Women's Suffrage Resources". www.suffrageresources.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  3. "Making a difference". Girton College. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  4. "Votes For Women July 09 1909". digital.library.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  5. "Heroines of freethought: women of the early humanist movement". Humanists UK. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  6. Cornelis, Marlene (2018). My dears, if you are successful over this work, you will have carried women’s profession forward a hundred years: The Case of the Scottish Women's Hospital For Foreign Service. Glasgow: Glasgow University. p. 7.


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