Edith Brown (artist)
Edith Brown may refer to: * Dame Edith Mary Brown (1864–1956), British medical missionary to India * Edith Haisman, ''née'' Edith Eileen Brown (1896–1997), ''Titanic'' survivor * Edith Charlotte Brown Edith Charlotte Brown, ''née'' Hubback (born 1876, died 1945), also known as Mrs Francis Brown, was an English writer whose works were connected to Jane Austen, her great-great-aunt. In 1906, she and her father published a book about "Jane Austen' ...

Edith Mary Brown
Dame Edith Mary Brown, (24 March 1864 – 6 December 1956) was an English doctor and medical educator. She founded the Christian Medical College Ludhiana in 1894, the first medical training facility for women in Asia, and served as principal of the college for half a century. Brown was a pioneer in the instruction of Indian female doctors and midwives with modern western methods. Early life and education Brown was born on 24 March 1864 in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, to George Wightman Brown, a bank manager, and his second wife, Mary (née Walther). She was one of six children and the second daughter born to George. Brown began her education at Manchester High School for Girls, an independent school in Manchester, Lancashire, before moving to Croydon High School, an all-girls independent school in London. Having won a scholarship, she studied natural sciences at Girton College, Cambridge. She took second class honours in 1885, within the first years that women were allo ...
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Edith Haisman
Edith Haisman (27 October 1896 – 20 January 1997) was a South African-British woman who was one of the last remaining and oldest survivors of the sinking of in April 1912. She was the last survivor born in the 19th century, and therefore the last survivor who was a teenager at the time of the sinking, although seven younger survivors outlived her. Early life Edith Eileen Brown was born on 27 October 1896 in Worcester, South Africa to British immigrant Thomas William Solomon Brown and his native South African wife, Elizabeth Catherine (née Ford) who owned and operated a hotel in Worcester. She had one sister who died at age eight of diphtheria in 1906, as well as four half-siblings from her father's first marriage to whom she was not close. Thomas Brown saw the downgrade in the South African economy, and he and his wife eventually decided they would emigrate to Seattle, Washington in the United States, where Elizabeth's sister Josephine Acton lived and where Thomas planne ...
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