Ella Campbell Scarlett | |
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 Ella Scarlett in 1916 | |
| Born | 22 November 1864 |
| Died | 30 October 1937 (aged 72)
London, England |
| Alma mater | London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse | Percy Hamilton Synge (m. 14 December 1901-1921; divorced) |
| Parent(s) | Helen (née Magruder) Scarlett (mother) William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger (father) |
| Relatives |
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Ella Campbell Scarlett (22 November 1864 – 30 October 1937) was an English physician who was the first woman medical practitioner in Bloemfontein, South Africa and the first woman doctor at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Canada.
Early life and education
Scarlett was born at Abinger Hall in Surrey, England on 22 November 1864. Her parents were Helen ( née Magruder) Scarlett, niece of John B. Magruder, and William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger. [1] [2]
In 1897, Scarlett studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital for five years, and spent some time in Korea at the Royal Court. [3]
On 14 December 1901, she married Percy Hamilton Synge. At the time of the wedding she was 37 years old and Synge was 29 years old.
Career
In 1902, Scarlett traveled to Norvalspont, Cape Colony to serve, by government appointment, in the concentration camp as part of the Boer War. [4] Scarlett then moved to Bloemfontein, where she was part of a six-member committee appointed by the British Minister of War to investigate conditions in the concentration camps. Other members of the committee included Millicent Fawcett and Jane Elizabeth Waterston. [5] In 1903, Scarlett was assigned the position of doctor to Normal College and the Dames Instituut.
In 1907, Scarlett moved to Edmonton, Canada, for five years before moving to New Westminster. In 1915 Scarlett worked for the Canadian Red Cross teaching first aid and home nursing, as well as organising the first Women's Volunteer Reserve Corps of Canada [6] and becoming the first woman doctor at the Royal Columbian Hospital. [7] In August 1915, Scarlett traveled to Serbia to distribute medical supplies and visited British prisoner of war camps in Germany. [8] She died in 1937 in London. [9]
References
- ^ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 25. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Says, Richard Merchant (26 July 2012). "Royal Columbian Hospital's First Woman Doctor". RCH150.
- ^ "One of the Great Women of the West - Maclean's - SEPTEMBER 1916". Maclean's, The Complete Archive. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ Potgieter, S V (1998). "History of Medicine: Medicine in Bloemfontein - anecdotes from the turn of the century". South African Medical Journal. 3 (88): 272–274.
- ^ Hacker, Barton; Vining, Margaret (2012). A companion to women's military history (Volume 74 ed.). Brill. p. 195. ISBN 9789004212176.
- ^ Says, Richard Merchant (26 July 2012). "Royal Columbian Hospital's First Woman Doctor". RCH150.
- ^ Hacker, Barton; Vining, Margaret (2012). A companion to women's military history (Volume 74 ed.). Brill. p. 195. ISBN 9789004212176.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
- 1864 births
- 1937 deaths
- Daughters of barons
- People from Surrey (before 1889)
- 20th-century British women medical doctors
- 20th-century English medical doctors
- English women medical doctors
- British expatriates in Canada
- People of the Second Boer War
- 20th-century South African physicians
- South African women physicians
- 20th-century Canadian physicians
- 20th-century Canadian women physicians
- Red Cross personnel
- Cape Colony people
- Scarlett family