Alice Mabel Headwards-Hunter, LAH, FRCSEd (late 1800s – 11 September 1973) was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
[1] To gain surgical experience she returned to India serving as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) then working at Peshawar Municipal Hospital.
After beccoming the first woman Fellow of the RCSEd in 1920, she returned to India where she spent the rest of her professional life, caring mainly for women and children.
[1] Headwards-Hunter returned to India in 1918 and worked initially in a British troop hospital as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[3] In 1919, the Sex Disqualification Removal Act was passed in Great Britain making it illegal to exclude any woman from employment because of her gender.
She particularly valued the honour of Serving Sister and honorary life member of St John Ambulance awarded in 1946.