Mary Page Stone

{{Short description|Australian medical doctor (1865–1910)}}

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Emily Mary Page Stone MBBS (31 May 1865 – 18 December 1910), generally referred to as Mary or E. Mary Page Stone (sometimes hyphenated), was a medical doctor in the State of Victoria, Australia.

Mary was born in Mornington, Victoria. She was the daughter of a shopkeeper – John Stone, and his wife – Laura Matilda, née Reed. She received her education there and later in England, trained as a teacher. She returned to Melbourne, where she taught at various private schools before enlisting with Melbourne University as a medical student in 1889.Penny Russell, 'Stone, Emily Mary (1865–1910)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stone-emily-mary-9238/text15175, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 12 December 2015.

She graduated after a brilliant scholastic career, being second in the top five for her graduating year. This should have entitled her to a position as resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, but was controversially disqualified because of her gender.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20715598 |title=Stenograms |newspaper=The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939) |location=Brisbane, Qld. |date=21 April 1894 |accessdate=12 December 2015 |page=730 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Stone was one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne.{{Cite web |date=2024-02-19 |title=Queen Victoria Hospital Founders |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/queen-victoria-hospital-founders |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=www.vic.gov.au |language=en-AU}}

She practised for sixteen years – first at Windsor then Hawthorn, before her death which took place due to a fall from her bicycle post colliding with a dray.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article179904593 |title=A Cycling Tragedy |newspaper=The Age |issue=17,398 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=19 December 1910 |accessdate=26 May 2016 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}

She was active in the cause of temperance, and an hon. secretary of the Victorian branch of the National Council of Women.

Her cousins – Constance Stone and Clara Stone, were also medical doctors.