English physician and feminist (died 1912)

Sophia Jex-Blake

Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She was the first practising female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; a leading campaigner for medical education for women, she was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh, at a time when no other medical schools were training women.

Born

1840

January 21

Died

1912

Era

1840s

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Sophia, in brief

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1840 Born
1912 Died

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The world in 1912

When Sophia departed

april 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.
april 14 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
april 15 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
april 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1840

Alfred Thayer Mahan 1840–1914 American captain and historian (born 1840) Claude Monet 1840–1926 French painter (born 1840) Émile Zola 1840–1902 French novelist, playwright, journalist (died 1902) Kuroda Kiyotaka 1840–1900 Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1840) Murad V 1840–1904 Ottoman sultan (born 1840) Namık Kemal 1840–1888 Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1840)

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