1. Mary Darby Sturge was a British medical doctor, known for her pioneering work with alcoholism and championing the importance of preventative medical care.
12 Facts About Mary Sturge
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Mary Sturge is credited as being the second woman doctor in Birmingham and was President of the Medical Women's Federation from 1920 to 1922.
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Mary Sturge was known as Maida in her family where she was the eldest of ten children in prominent Quaker family in the city.
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In 1877, Mary Sturge was in the opening class at Edgbaston High School for Girls, the first secondary school for girls in Birmingham.
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Mary Sturge was educated at the new Mason Science College, the forerunner of Birmingham University, when it opened in 1880, where she was one of the first four women students.
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Mary Sturge left to study medicine in 1886 at London University, which had opened to women in 1878.
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Mary Sturge returned to Birmingham in 1895 to take up general practice.
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Mary Sturge cared for her aunt, women's rights activist Eliza Sturge, who died at her house in 1905.
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Mary Sturge worked at the hospital until 1924, when she retired but remained a consulting surgeon.
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In 1908, Mary Sturge published, with Sir Victor Horsley and Sir Arthur Newsholme, Alcohol and the Human Body.
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Mary Sturge was an active member of the Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Mary Sturge died in Birmingham on 14 March 1925, having suffered from Bell's palsy.