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Elizabeth Margaret Pace
Dr Elizabeth Pace (1866 - 1957) was a Scottish medical doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights. Early life and education Elizabeth Margaret Pace was born in Brixton in 1866 to Margaret Gibb and Thomas Richard Pace, a leather manufacturer, the eldest of four children. She attended Clapham High School. In 1884, she matriculated in the London School of Medicine for Women. She graduated in 1891. In 1892, she was presented to the chancellor at Burlington House, where she was noted for having an award in obstetrics. Career During her career, she worked in a number of institutions, in London, Glasgow and Scotland, including: * New Hospital for Women * Gynecology department, Bellahoustoun Dispensary * Glasgow Lock Hospital * Victoria Infirmary Dispensary * Glasgow Women's Private Hospital * St Margaret's School, Polmont She was involved in a number of organisations with charitable aims, with a particular focus on women's work and health, many alongsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambeth
Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth, historically in the County of Surrey. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area experienced some slight growth in the medieval period as part of the manor of Lambeth Palace. By the Victorian era the area had seen significant development as London expanded, with dense industrial, commercial and residential buildings located adjacent to one another. The changes brought by World War II altered much of the fabric of Lambeth. Subsequent development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has seen an increase in the number of high-rise buildings. The area is home to the International Maritime Organization. Lambeth is home to one of the largest Lusophone, Portuguese-speaking communities in the UK, and is the second most commonly spoken language in Lambeth after English language, English. History Medieval The origins of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice McLaren
Dr Alice McLaren (1860 - 1945) was a Scottish medical doctor, gynecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights. She was the first woman medical practitioner in Glasgow. Early life and education McLaren was born in Edinburgh to William Cunningham McLaren and Maria Amelia Wilson, and was the last of six siblings. She graduated with first class honours in Medicine from University of London in 1893. McLaren trained at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Medical career The British Medical Journal's obituary of McLaren noted that she was the first woman gynecologist in Glasgow. During her career, she worked in a number of institutions, including: * Glasgow Women's Private Hospital, where she was medical superintendent * Leith General Hospital, where she was appointed as House Physician in 1891. *Glasgow Lock Hospital * Glasgow Royal Samaritan Hospital * Royal Mental Hospital, where she was consulting Gynecologist * Leavesden Asylum *Birmingham Union Infirmary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Deaths
1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7 Newton Place, Glasgow
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Maitland Ramsay
Andrew Maitland Ramsay FRSE LLD (1859–1946) was a Scottish eye surgeon and medical author. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain 1923/24 and President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow. Life He was born on 9 November 1859 in Glasgow the son of Andrew Ramsay, a clothier of 66 South Portland Street on the south side of the River Clyde. The family moved to West Lothian in his youth and he was educated at Linlithgow Burgh Grammar School. He then studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChM in 1882. He gained practical experience at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1891. In the First World War he served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the 3rd General Scottish Hospital. He succeeded Dr Thomas Reid as lecturer in Ophthalmology at Glasgow University and became Professor in 1936. In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow And West Of Scotland Association For Women's Suffrage
The Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage was an organisation involved in campaigning for women’s suffrage, based in Glasgow, with members from all over the west of Scotland. Formation The association met for the first time in 1902, in the home of founding president Mrs Greig, at 18 Lynedoch Crescent, Glasgow, and affiliated to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies the following year. Further meetings (until 1909) were held in the offices of the Scottish Council for Women's Trades at 58 Renfield Street. Greig was, for many years president of the Glasgow Women's Liberal Association, and, along with fellow members Alice McLaren, Elizabeth Margaret Pace, Grace Paterson & Margaret Irwin (trade unionist), Margaret Irwin was also a member of the GCWT. Activities The organisation is considered to be a non-militant suffrage association, and although it welcomed male members, it was organised and led by women. Their methods of influence incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Jex-Blake
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a University education when she and six other women, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, 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 and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other medical schools were training women. Early life Sophia Jex-Blake was born at 3 Croft Place Hastings, England on 21 January 1840, daughter of retired lawyer Thomas Jex-Blake, a proctor of Doctors' Commons, and Mary Jex-Blake (née Cubitt).Shirley Roberts‘Blake, Sophia Louisa Jex- (1840–1912)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance (virtue)
Temperance in its modern use is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. It is typically described in terms of what an individual voluntarily refrains from doing. This includes restraint from revenge by practicing non-violence and forgiveness, restraint from arrogance by practicing humility and modesty, restraint from excesses such as extravagant luxury or splurging, and restraint from rage or craving by practicing calmness and self-control. Temperance has been described as a virtue by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It has a long history in philosophical and religious thought. In classical iconography, the virtue is often depicted as a woman holding two vessels transferring water from one to another. It is one of the cardinal virtues in western thought found in Greek philosophy and Christianity, as well as eastern traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. Temperance is one of the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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