Isabella Macdonald Macdonald
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Isabella Macdonald Macdonald (1856–1947) was one of the first women to graduate as a medical doctor after training in the United Kingdom; she was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and a Licence of the Society of Apothecaries in 1888, from the London School of Medicine for Women. She went on to have a long career, including as a consultant at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
Biography
Isabella Macdonald Macdonald was born in 1856, daughter of John Macdonald, lawyer and town-clerk of Arbroath and his wife Ann, née Kid (d.1860). The couple had eleven children including seven daughters.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Alexander |first= H. |year=1986 |id2=macdonald-louisa-7340 |title=Macdonald, Louisa (1858–1949) |accessdate= 2 November 2014 }} Her younger sister, Louisa Macdonald was an educationist and suffragist.
She was an early student of the London School of Medicine for Women, established to provide a route by which women could acquire the credentials necessary to become a registered physician in the UK.{{cite journal|title=Obituary - Dr. Isabella Macdonald Macdonald|issue=4525|volume=2|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20370826|journal=British Medical Journal|date=27 September 1947|page=511|jstor=20370826 }}{{cite journal|title=Dr. Isabella Macdonald|issue=50863|date=September 11, 1947|page=6|journal=The Times}}
She graduated in 1888 as a doctor of medicine (MB){{cite journal |last1= |first1= |date=24 November 1888 |title=Medical News |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_the-lancet_1888-11-24_2_3404/page/1048/mode/2up?q=%22Isabella+Macdonald+Macdonald%22&view=theater |journal=The Lancet |volume=2 |issue=3404 |pages=1049 |doi= |access-date=6 June 2022}}{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |date=June 15, 1889 |title=Presentation day at the university of London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncNqFpDhtFUC&dq=%22Isabella+Macdonald+Macdonald%22&pg=PA261 |journal=The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions |volume=20 |issue= |pages=261 |doi= |isbn= 9780824037468|access-date=}} and pharmacist. She practiced initially, for three years, as the resident physician at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, returning to the UK with ill-health. Thereafter she worked for many years at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, rising to the level of consultant physician and retiring in 1925. She maintained a private practice operating from her house in Seymour Street, Portman Square until 1940, when the property was destroyed as the result of a wartime bombing.
Her 1947 obituary makes no mention of any marriages. She died, aged 91, in 1947.
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Category:19th-century English medical doctors
Category:Alumni of the London School of Medicine for Women