Dame Edith Mary Brown

Dame Edith Mary Brown (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 on 24 March 1846.

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 finally qualified as a doctor of medicine.

Brown sailed from London on 17 October, 1891 on the "S.S. Oceana" as a second class passenger.

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

Her motto was: "My work is for a King"

She retired as principal of the College in 1942.

She died 6 December, 1956 in Srinagar, India

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.