- Frances Hoggan
Frances Elizabeth Hoggan MD (née Morgan) (
20 December 1843 –5 February 1927 ) was the first British woman to receive a doctorate inmedicine from a university in Europe, and the first woman doctor to be registered inWales .Frances Hoggan was born in
Brecon , where her father was a curate. She was brought up and educated atCowbridge and later at Windsor. During her teens, she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who was brought up with her mother and passed off as Frances' sister. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/women/pages/mothers_of_industry.shtml BBC - Wales History - Mothers of Industry ] ] She went on to study atParis andDüsseldorf . She obtained her medical qualification from theUniversity of Zurich in 1870, completing the six year course in three years. In 1874 she married Dr George Hoggan. She later practised in London as a specialist in women's and children's diseases. Together with her husband, she opened the first husband-and-wife general medical practice in the UK. She became a campaigner and social reformer, and toured theUnited States lecturing. She had a particular interest in racial issues, and was a speaker at the Universal Race Congress in London in 1911.Her cremated remains are buried, with her husband's, in
Woking cemetery.Works
*"Education for Girls in Wales" (1882)
*" American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom" (1913)ee also
*Elizabeth Blackwell
*Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
*Nadezhda Suslova ources
* M. A. Elston, "Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth (1843–1927)", "
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ", Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46422, accessed 4 May 2007]
*McIntyre, N. "Britain's first medical marriage: Frances Morgan (1843-1927), George Hoggan (1837-1891) and the mysterious "Elsie"." "Journal of Medical Biography", 12:2 (2004), 105-14. Publisher:Royal Society of Medicine . ISSN 09677720.Notes
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/brecon_life/pages/franceshoggan.shtml Biography at BBC Wales]
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