Lillias Hamilton

Dr Lillias Anna Hamilton M.D., (1858–1925) was an English pioneer woman doctor and author. After attending Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890.

She was Court Physician to Amir Abdur Rahman in Afghanistan in the 1890s, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book "A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War", published in 1900.

After a spell in private practice in London, she became Warden of Studley Horticultural College in the years before World War I, leaving the College in 1915 to serve in a typhoid hospital in Montenegro under the auspices of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee.

Her other published works include "A Nurse's Bequest", 1907.