Grace Ross Cadell (October 25, 1855 – February 19, 1918) was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify.

[1][2] In 1887, with her sister, Martha Georgina Cadell, she became one of the students in the first intake at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women which had been established by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.

On 8 June 1888, Grace and Martha Cadell, along with Elizabeth Christie and Ida Balfour, stayed in the hospital after this hour to follow a patient with head injury.

[6] Grace Cadell qualified in 1891 after passing the examinations for the 'Triple Qualification' of LRCPE, LRCSE and LFPSG (although like many of her contemporaries she chose to abbreviate this to LRCP&SEd).

[1] On 9 October 1909, Cadell was one of the many suffragettes on the public procession in Edinburgh demanding Votes for Women, locally named the "Gude Cause".

[12] In 1912 as a result of refusing to pay taxes as a protest, her furniture was seized and publicly sold at the Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile.

[15] Ethel Moorhead was infamously released into her care following force-feeding at Calton Jail, as were both Edith Hudson and Arabella Scott.

[12] In another act of rebellion Cadell refused to stamp the insurance cards of her five servants and was fined £50 by Lord Salvesen in the Glasgow High Court.

[12] The trial made the newspapers due to fellow-suffragettes throwing apples at the judge (but hitting one of the jurors), at the sentencing of other suffragettes for arson.

[12] In July 1914 she attended the trial at Edinburgh Sherriff Court of Maude Edwards, who was charged with slashing the portrait of King George V on display at the Royal Scottish Academy.

The re-enactment was staged by actors of the Citadel Arts Group to promote their play What Women want[22] which depicted suffrage events in Scotland and featured Grace Cadell's story.