Edith Mary Brown

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Dame Edith Mary Brown, OBE, LRCP, LRCS (Ed.), LRFPS (Glas.) (24 March 1864 – 6 December 1956) was the founder of the Christian Medical College Ludhiana, the first medical training facility for woman in Asia.

Brown was born in Whitehaven in 1864. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, one of the first woman to be admitted to the Honours Degree Examination at the University of Cambridge in 1882. After graduating she studied medicine at Edinburgh and in Brussels, where she qualified as a doctor of medicine. Brown sailed from London on 17 October 1891 on the S.S. Oceana as a second class passenger.^{[citation needed]}

She was appointed to the medical mission at Ludhiana, Punjab, where she organized a Christian medical training center for Indian woman. The school was officially recognized by the government in 1915.^{[citation needed]}

Damehood

On 1 January 1932, Edith Brown was gazetted as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Death

She died 6 December 1956 in Srinagar, India, aged 92.

Bibliography

• Francesca French, Miss Brown's hospital: the story of the Ludhiana Medical College and Dame Edith Brown, O.B.E., its founder, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954.
• Pat Barr, The Memsahibs; The Women of Victorian India. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1976

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Name	Brown, Edithmary
Alternative names
Short description	British medical doctor and Christian missionary to India
Date of birth	24 March 1864
Place of birth	Whitehaven, England, UK
Date of death	6 December 1956 (aged 92)
Place of death	Srinagar, India