1. Flora Murray was a Scottish medical pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.
19 Facts About Flora Murray
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Flora Murray attended school in Germany and London before attending the London Hospital in Whitechapel in 1890, as a probationer nurse, for a six-month course.
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Flora Murray decided on her career in medicine and went on to study in the London School of Medicine for Women in 1897.
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Flora Murray then worked as a Medical assistant for 18 months at an asylum at the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfriesshire.
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Flora Murray completed her medical education at Durham University, receiving her MB BSc in 1903, and MD in 1905.
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Flora Murray received a Diploma in Public Health from the University of Cambridge in 1906.
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Historians such as Hamer and Jennings have argued that Flora Murray had her "first serious lesbian relationship" with Elsie Inglis.
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In 1905 Flora Murray was a medical officer at the Belgrave Hospital for Children in London and then an anaesthetist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women.
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Flora Murray then continued her work in women's suffrage as a supporter of Women's Social and Political Union.
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Flora Murray became a consistent participant in the militant movement, offering her services as a practitioner including at the Pembroke Gardens nursing home for suffragettes recovering from force-feeding, run by Nurses Catherine Pine and Gertrude Townend.
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Flora Murray took a leadership role and showed her value as an activist by speaking at public gatherings, becoming a member in the 1911 census protest, and using her medical knowledge and skill to treat her fellow suffragettes who experienced injuries through their work as activists.
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Flora Murray looked after Emmeline Pankhurst and other hunger-strikers after their release from prison and campaigned with other doctors against the forcible feeding of prisoners.
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Flora Murray was appointed Medecin-en-Chef and Anderson became the chief surgeon.
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Flora Murray reported in her diary that visiting representatives of the British War Office were astonished to find a hospital run successfully by British women, and the hospital was treated as a British auxiliary hospital rather than a French one.
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Flora Murray suffered from cancer and died on 28 July 1923, aged 54.
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Flora Murray's death occurred shortly after her surgery in a nursing home in Hampstead, London.
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Flora Murray is buried at the Holy Trinity Church at Penn, Buckinghamshire, near the couple's former home.
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Flora Murray commanded the military hospital Endall Street London with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel RAMC 1915 -1919.
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Flora Murray appears uniquely in the banknote's front security hologram.