Linda,
Being Friday, I thought it would be nice to try a couple of searches using
the PRO online catalogue at http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk and came up with a
few references that may be of your interest:
WO 32/16451 Requests for access to records concerning Dr James Barry,
Inspector General Army Medical Services 1956-1964
WO 138/1 Dr. James Barry M.D., Inspector General of the Army Medical
Department 1830-1914
PRO 30/46/18 Copies of Letters concerning the conduct of Dr. James Barry
Inspector-General of Hospitals. 1859 Jan., Feb.
I am sure other records can be traced as well
Regards
Jone Garmendia
E-Access Department
Public Record Office
Kew, Richmond,
Surrey TW9 4DU
UK
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> Subject: Re: query re female doctor
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> Dear Linda
>
> Out a bit on date, but do you mean Dr James Barry, who joined the Army
> Hospital Department in 1813 after qualifying (also disguised as a man)
> at Edinburgh University. Became Inspector-General of Hospitals and was
> in line for a knighthood when she died in 1865. It was only in the
> post-mortem that it was discovered that she was a woman and had even at
> some point had a child (presumably before she joined the army). She was
> also, I believe, the first British woman to earn a medical degree. Some
> experts have since questioned the authenticity of the story.
>
> James
>
> James King
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> >>> <[log in to unmask]> 03/01/02 12:17am >>>
> Greetings from Muggy old Brisbane!
>
> A colleague has asked if I can find out the name of a female doctor,
> who for
> most of her career disgused herself as a man. She may have been in
> Kitchener's
> was or the Boer War. She also developed some surgical techniques in
> Britain.
>
> Linda Stanisic
> Archivist
> Pine Rivers Shire Council
> Brisbane
> Queensland
> Australia
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