Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), English physician. Garrett was the first woman to gain a medical qualification in England. She began her studies in 1860 but had difficulty qualifying as a doctor because of opposition in the profession to women. In 1865 she passed the Apothecaries' Hall examination and finally in 1870 obtained her medical degree from the University of Paris. In 1871 she established London's New Hospital for Women, which employed only women. In 1874 she co-founded the London School of Medicine for Women, the first medical school in Britain to train female doctors. Photographed circa 1889.