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Letitia Fairfield
doctor, lawyer, war-worker, and first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London (1885–1978)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1 February 1978, 1978
- Place of birth
- Melbourne
- Place of death
- St Mary Abbot's Hospital, Kensington
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Letitia
- Family name
- Fairfield
- Sibling
- Rebecca West
- archives at
- Wellcome Collection
- cause of death
- stroke
- described by source
- pi-vol--issue-18-1948
- educated at
- George Watson's College, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, 1908-1916, Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Independent Labour Party
- military, police or special rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- oral history at
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
- significant person
- Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst
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