Queer Places:
New Hospital for Women in Marylebone, now University College Hospital : Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, 25 Grafton Way, London WC1E 6DB, UK
Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall (January 17, 1837 - August 8, 1910) was a pioneering Scottish physician and one of the "Edinburgh Seven"—the first women to matriculate as undergraduate medical students at a British university.
Born on 17 January 1837 in Boyndie, Banffshire, Scotland, she was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Govie Anderson and Mary Gavin (née Mann). She was the only Scottish member of the Edinburgh Seven.
In 1869, she joined the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. After the university blocked the women from graduating in 1873, she continued her studies in Paris, France. She received her medical doctorate from the Faculté de médecine de Paris in 1879, with a thesis on mitral stenosis.
She established a medical practice in London and served as a senior physician at the New Hospital for Women in Marylebone.
She married solicitor Claud Marshall in 1871; he died two months later while she was pregnant, and their son died in infancy. She passed away in 1910 in Watford, England.
In 2019, the University of Edinburgh posthumously awarded her and the other members of the Edinburgh Seven honorary MBChB degrees.
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