{"id":182,"date":"2013-11-12T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-11-28T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:50:37","slug":"1906-female-medical-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2013\/11\/12\/1906-female-medical-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"1906 female medical graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our earliest group photographs of female medical graduates depicts the MBChB class of 1906.\u00a0 It shows 13 women and bears their signatures.<\/p>\n

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Female MBChB graduates 1906<\/p><\/div>\n

Alice Meredith BURN, New Zealand
\nAgnes Marshall COWAN, Scotland
\nJessie Handyside GELLATLY, Scotland
\nM Deborah HANCOCK \/ Marjorie DUAKE-COHEN *<\/em>
\nOlive TREDWAY-LEONARD, India
\nMeher Ardeshir Dadabhai NAHOROJI, India
\nAgnes Ellen PORTER, Scotland
\nEdith Gertrude PYCROFT, England
\nMabel Lida RAMSAY, England
\nElsie Blair SAUNDERS, England
\nNettie Bell TURNBULL, Scotland
\nAnnie Davidson URQUHART, England
\nEthel WISEMAN, England<\/p>\n

There was a further female MBChB graduate that year; Isabel HILL, Scotland, graduated in absentia.<\/em><\/p>\n

* The signature for the student front row, furthest left, is given as M. Deborah Hancock (it may say Harcourt).\u00a0 However no student of that name graduated.\u00a0 The remaining student who whose name appears in the list of graduates is Marjorie Duake Cohen.\u00a0 Her graduation record notes this as being her married name and has her also as Miss Averyl Harcourt.<\/p>\n

Some online research has located a reference in the London Gazette, 31 Jan. 1930<\/a>, to a Mrs Simha Duake Cohen, otherwise Marjorie Averyl Harcourt, who died in 1929.\u00a0 It also refers to an Anthony Dowling, aka Vernon Harcourt.\u00a0 The precise circumstances of name changes have not been determined but it does look likely that the remaining graduate in the photograph is Mrs. Duake Cohen.\u00a0 Why her hood is a different colour to the others has not (yet) been determined.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 28 Nov.<\/p>\n

The woman in the photograph is now thought to be Mary Deborah Hancock. Although not a MBChB graduate (which would account for her different hood), this is clearly a perfect match with the signature.<\/p>\n

Further research into Marjorie Duake Cohen continues and, if sufficient information comes to light, she may feature in a future blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of our earliest group photographs of female medical graduates depicts the MBChB class of 1906.\u00a0 It shows 13 women and bears their signatures. Alice Meredith BURN, New Zealand Agnes Marshall COWAN, Scotland Jessie Handyside GELLATLY, Scotland M Deborah HANCOCK \/ Marjorie DUAKE-COHEN * Olive TREDWAY-LEONARD, India Meher Ardeshir Dadabhai NAHOROJI, India Agnes Ellen PORTER, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}