1. Grace Ross Cadell was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify.
20 Facts About Grace Cadell
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Grace Cadell was, with Elsie Inglis, one of the initial entrants to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.
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Grace Cadell stood up to Jex-Blake over a disciplinary matter, being dismissed from the school and subsequently successfully sued Jex-Blake and her school.
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Grace Cadell became an active suffragette as was well known for public acts of defiance in the cause of women's suffrage.
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Grace Cadell was prominent in providing medical care and refuge for her fellow suffragettes, some of whom were released into her care directly from episodes of force feeding in prison.
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Grace Cadell's home became well known as a sanctuary for suffragettes.
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Grace Ross Cadell was born on 25 October 1855, the oldest of four daughters of George Philip Cadell of Carriden, Bo'ness, who was superintendent of the local coalworks, and his wife Martina Duncanson Fleming.
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Inglis and the Grace Cadell sisters became students at the college.
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In 1899, when Elsie Inglis created the Medical Women's Club, set up with the prime aim of starting a hospital for women, Grace Cadell was a prominent member of the club and subsequently served on the medical committee of the hospital, which was opened at 11 George Square.
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Grace Cadell specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and in 1911 she took over directorship of the whole clinic.
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Grace Cadell later became registrar at the New Hospital for Women in London.
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On 9 October 1909, Grace Cadell was one of the many suffragettes on the public procession in Edinburgh demanding Votes for Women, locally named the "Gude Cause".
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Grace Cadell paid her fine with a sackful of copper coins as a further defiance.
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Grace Cadell's house at 145 Leith Walk was a refuge for suffragettes.
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Grace Cadell never married but during the course of the First World War she adopted four children.
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Grace Cadell was forcibly removed by three constables during the trial for causing an affray but was not arrested.
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Grace Cadell died at Mosspark House, on the Rumbling Bridge road at Yetts o'Muckhart, on 19 February 1918.
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Grace Cadell was buried with her parents and sisters in Morningside Cemetery.
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Grace Cadell Emmeline was clearly named after Emmeline Pankhurst and is thought to have been adopted as a new-born from a young girl at the Magdalene House in Edinburgh, where unwed girls would have their children removed and made to work in workhouse conditions as "punishment" for becoming pregnant.
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In 2009, a re-enactment of the sale of Grace Cadell's furniture was held at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.