Maud Chadburn

Maud Mary Chadburn CBE (9 March 1868 – 24 April 1957), was one of the earliest women in the United Kingdom to pursue a career as a surgeon.

She also co-founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children in 1912 with fellow surgeon Eleanor Davies-Colley.

[citation needed] "The careers of those second generation medical women who achieved prominent reputations as surgeons, such as Louisa Garrett Anderson, Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake, Lady Barrett, Elizabeth Bolton, Maud Chadburn, Elizabeth Davies-Colley, Gertrude Herzfeld (all qualifying between 1894 and 1914) exhibit a pattern of successive appointments within the interlocking network of women-run hospitals and the RFH.

To take just one example, Maud Chadburn qualified MB in 1894 from the LSMW, and held houseposts at the RFH, Clapham Maternity, and the NHW.

All her medical studies were undertaken on her own initiative..."[citation needed] Very close to where the South London Hospital for Women and Children used to be in Clapham there is a road named after Maud called 'Maud Chadburn Place.'