Emily Hancock (other)
Emily Hancock may refer to: *Emily Hancock Siedeberg Emily Hancock Siedeberg-McKinnon (17 February 1873 – 13 June 1968) was a New Zealand medical practitioner and hospital superintendent. She was also the country's first female medical graduate. Early life Siedeberg was born in 1873 in Clyde ... (1873–1968), New Zealand doctor and medical administrator * Emily Hancock (Neighbours), a fictional character from Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' {{hndis, Hancock, Emily ...
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Emily Hancock Siedeberg
Emily Hancock Siedeberg-McKinnon (17 February 1873 – 13 June 1968) was a New Zealand medical practitioner and hospital superintendent. She was also the country's first female medical graduate. Early life Siedeberg was born in 1873 in Clyde, Otago, New Zealand. She was the third child of Irish Quaker Anna Thompson and Franz David Siedeberg, a German Jewish architect who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1861 and taken up mining. When Emily was three the family settled in Dunedin, her father becoming a successful building contractor. Emily was educated at the Normal School and at Otago Girls' High School, where she held a board scholarship. From an early age she accepted her father's dictum that she should train as a doctor. Career Encouraged by her father, she studied medicine, becoming the first woman to enter medical school in 1891, at the University of Otago Medical School. Although the dean, John Scott, was reluctant to admit Siedeberg, the university council decided tha ...
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