1. Louisa Martindale served as magistrate on the Brighton bench, was a prison commissioner and a member of the National Council of Women.
14 Facts About Louisa Martindale
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Louisa Martindale served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals at Royaumont Abbey in France in World War I, and as a surgeon in London in World War II.
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Louisa Martindale's mother, "a champion of a larger life for women", was an active suffragist and a member of the Women's Liberal Federation, and of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
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From an early age it had been decided that Louisa Martindale should become a doctor, and at 17 she was sent to Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham and obtained her London Matriculation in 1892.
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Louisa Martindale then entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1893, gaining her MB in 1899, and her BS.
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Murdoch and Louisa Martindale worked closely as they were partners in their business.
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Louisa Martindale started her own general practice and very soon was asked to join the Lewes Road Dispensary for Women and Children as a visiting medical officer.
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Louisa Martindale served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals at Royaumont Abbey in France in World War I, and as a surgeon in London in World War II.
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In 1931, Louisa Martindale was elected president of the Medical Women's Federation.
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In 1937, Louisa Martindale was appointed to the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists as its first woman member.
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Louisa Martindale laid the groundwork for research in the treatment of uterine cancer and fibroid growths in women by means of intensive X-ray therapy.
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Louisa Martindale secured a long and distinguished life and career in medicine, carrying out over 7000 operations.
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Louisa Martindale's work brought her respect and acknowledgment from both her colleagues and her patients: she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians in 1933, and was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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Louisa Martindale died in her home in London on 5 February 1966, aged 93.