Mabel L. Ramsay

[3] Mabel Ramsay studied at the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women, which had been jointly founded by the suffragist Elsie Inglis.

Ramsay graduated MB ChB with distinction at the University of Edinburgh in 1906, alongside Agnes Marshall Cowan and Jessie Gellatly.

[citation needed] On 8 May 1921, Ramsay was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the third woman to achieve that distinction.

[3] During World War I, Ramsay served with radiologist Florence Stoney as a doctor with the Women's Imperial Service Hospital Unit at Antwerp and near Cherbourg.

"She herself would be delighted to know she ended her days still in harness," her colleague Annie Bryce commented on the circumstances of Ramsay's death.

Mabel Ramsay (back row, second from left) amongst the female graduates in Medicine at Edinburgh University in July 1906
Dr Mabel Ramsay 1878-1954 Pioneering female doctor and surgeon. Suffragist and campaigner for women's and children's welfare. Founder of the Plymouth Soroptimist Club. Practised medicine here at 4 Wentworth Villas from 1908 to 1945. Her home until 1933.
Dr Mabel Ramsay 1878-1954 Pioneering female doctor and surgeon. Suffragist and campaigner for women's and children's welfare. Founder of the Plymouth Soroptimist Club. Practised medicine here at 4 Wentworth Villas from 1908 to 1945. Her home until 1933.