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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blue plaque

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: First woman to qualify in Britain as physician and surgeon Elizabeth Garrett Anderson MD Britain's first woman mayor Aldeburgh 1908 lived here 1841-1852
Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, paving the way for women in medicine; she also became Britain's first female mayor in Aldeburgh in 1908.

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