| 词条 | Elizabeth Bell (doctor) |
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| name = Elizabeth (Eliza) Gould Bell | image = Elizabeth Bell.jpg | image_size = | birth_date = 24 Dec 1862 | birth_place = Newry, Ireland | death_date = 9 July 1934 | death_place = Belfast | nationality = Irish, British | alma mater = Royal University of Ireland | other_names = Elizabeth Fisher | occupation = Doctor | years_active = 1893-1928 | known_for = First woman to qualify as a doctor in Ireland |}} Elizabeth Gould Bell (24 Dec 1862–9 July 1934) was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Ireland. She was also a leading suffragette. She was a ‘pioneer of the feminist movement in Ireland’ Early life and educationBell was born in Newry, Co. Down in 1862. She was the daughter of Joseph Bell. She had a brother and one sister who also qualified in medicine. Her sister worked as a GP in Manchester.{{sfn|Kelly|2012|p=201}}{{sfn|Ulster Scots Women in History}}{{sfn|Malta RMAC}} She matriculated from Queen's college Belfast and in 1893 she graduated MB, BCh, BAO, RUI from Queen’s College, Royal University of Ireland.{{sfn|Kelly|2012|p=201}}{{sfn|Belfast Women|2011}}{{sfn|Ulster Scots Women in History}} She was Honorary Physician to the Woman's Maternity home in Belfast and the Babies Home at The Grove Belfast and was involved in the babies clubs welfare scheme.{{sfn|Belfast Women|2011}}{{sfn|Malta RMAC}} Bell worked as a GP in Belfast, operating her practice from Great Victoria Street. Her patients consisted mostly of women and children. She also worked as medical officer for the Malone Place Hospital. This hospital was set up by a number of women in Belfast, to specifically cater for women and girls in Belfast who went to Public houses. Furthermore, the workers in the hospital would offer homeless people from around the city a place to stay the night at the hospital, and helped them to find jobs and homes. A further cause of the hospital was to assist unmarried mother's and their babies.[1] She published A Curious Condition of Placenta and Membranes for the British Medical Association.{{sfn|Malta RMAC}} FamilyShe married Dr Hugh Fisher but he died soon into the marriage. She is a widow by the 1911 census. They had one son Hugo Bell Fisher born in 1898. As a Unionist, she volunteered to work for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1916 and was put was in charge of the ward in a Malta hospital during the First World War. Her son died of his wounds after the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.{{sfn|Kelly|2012|p=148}}{{sfn|Belfast Women|2011}}{{sfn|Ulster Scots Women in History}}{{sfn|Malta RMAC}} Political activismDr Bell was a supporter of the women’s suffrage movement and a friend and ally of the Pankhursts and Lady Balfour, both prominent feminist figures of the time.{{sfn|Kelly|2012|p=194}} She was arrested on a trip to London in 1911 when she threw stones through department store windows as part of the demonstrations. She was imprisoned in Holloway Women’s Prison. She was member of the Belfast Irish Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Social and Political Union. She acted as doctor for the suffragette prisoners in the Crumlin road Jail.{{sfn|Belfast Women|2011}}{{sfn|Ulster Scots Women in History}} She worked mostly in Belfast with patients who were women and children. She died in Belfast on 9 July 1934.{{sfn|Kelly|2012|p=201}}{{sfn|Belfast Women|2011}}{{sfn|Ulster Scots Women in History}} References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ums.ac.uk/umj086/086(3)189.pdf|title=Dr Elizabeth Gould Bell (1862 – 1934) - The First Woman to Graduate In Medicine And Practice In Ulster.|last=Shelagh|first=Mary Rae|date=12 February 2017|website=|archive-url=|archivedate=|dead-url=|accessdate=}} Further reading
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8 : 1869 births|1934 deaths|People from County Down|Alumni of the Royal University of Ireland|Alumni of Queen's University Belfast|Physicians from Belfast|Irish suffragists|Irish women medical doctors |
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