1. Frances Elizabeth Hoggan was a Welsh doctor and in 1870 became the first woman from the UK to receive a doctorate in medicine from any university in Europe.
12 Facts About Frances Hoggan
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Frances Hoggan was honoured with Wales' 11th Purple Plaque in her birth-town of Brecon in March 2023.
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Frances Hoggan was born in Brecon, Wales, where her father, Richard Morgan, was a curate.
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Frances Hoggan was brought up and educated at Cowbridge in Glamorgan and later at Windsor.
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Frances Hoggan went on to study at Paris and Dusseldorf.
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Frances Hoggan obtained her medical doctorate from the University of Zurich in March 1870, completing the six-year course in three years, becoming the first British woman to obtain a European MD degree.
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Frances Hoggan spent several years as a medical practitioner working with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson at the New Hospital for Women in London.
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Frances Hoggan helped to found the National Health Society with Elizabeth Blackwell in 1871.
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Frances Hoggan obtained her licence to practice in the UK from The King's and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland in February 1877.
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Frances Hoggan became a campaigner and social reformer, and toured the United States lecturing.
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Frances Hoggan had a particular interest in racial issues, and was a speaker at the Universal Race Congress in London in 1911.
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Frances Hoggan's cremated remains are buried, with her husband's, in Woking cemetery.