* 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician ( b. 1836 )

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett ( 1812 – 1893 ), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell ( 1813 – 1903 ), from London.

Elizabeth ’ s grandfather, owner of the family engineering works, Richard Garrett & Sons, had died in 1837, leaving the business to his eldest son, Elizabeth ’ s uncle.

A “ by-product of the industrial revolution ”, Elizabeth grew up in an atmosphere of “ triumphant economic pioneering ” and the Garrett children were to grow up to become achievers in the professional classes of late-Victorian England.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the University of Sorbonne | Faculty of Medicine, Paris

Elizabeth Garrett then applied to several medical schools, including Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons, all of which refused her admittance.

So in late 1865, Elizabeth Garrett L. S. A.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, M. D

The New Hospital for Women was renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918 and amalgamated with the Obstetric Hospital in 2001 to form the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital before relocating to become the University College Hospital Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing at UCH.

The former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital buildings are being incorporated into the design and structure of the new National Headquarters for the public service trade union UNISON.

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery, a permanent installation set within the restored former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital building that now forms part of the new UNISON Centre, uses a variety of media to set the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her hospital, and women ’ s struggle to achieve equality in the field of medicine within the wider framework of 19th and 20th century social history.

There is a secondary school in Islington, London which is named after her: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language College For Girls.

They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of Elizabeth I of England ( 1558 ) and its form has more than once been altered since.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

Elizabeth and Louie were known as “ the bathing Garretts ”, as their father had insisted they be allowed a hot bath once a week.

Twice she accompanied him in tickling Elizabeth, and once held her while he cut her black gown " into a thousand pieces.

Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth.

Elizabeth had good reason not to place too much trust in her commanders, who once in action tended, as she put it herself, " to be transported with an haviour of vainglory ".

As usual, Elizabeth lacked control over her commanders once they were abroad.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

The popularity of Elizabeth was extremely high, but her Privy Council, her Parliament and her subjects thought that the unmarried queen should take a husband ; it was generally accepted that, once a queen regnant was married, the husband would relieve the woman of the burdens of head of state.

Elizabeth gave him at once Russian tutors.

The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.

One famous story exemplifying the Empress ’ s vanity is that once the Elizabeth got a bit of powder in her hair and was unable to remove it.

Despite this, his mother and Elizabeth Woodville agreed Henry should move to claim the throne, and once he had taken it, he would marry Woodville's daughter, Elizabeth of York, uniting the two rival Houses.

Following Arthur's death, Elizabeth became pregnant once more.

Lettice Knollys was the wife of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth on her mother's side.

He was about to leave for England to justify himself to Queen Elizabeth, when there was a rebellion in Munster in October 1598, and " all my lands were wasted " which once again returned him to poverty.

" She stated her view that it would be appropriate for Australia to become a republic only once Queen Elizabeth II's reign ends.

There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.

Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen -- " soul sisters all ," in Tyler's words.

The foundry was called upon, in 1976, to cast a full-size replica of the Liberty Bell, which was presented to the United States by the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and which is now housed in the tower once intended for the Liberty Bell, by the former visitors center on South Third Street.

He is a direct descendant of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan and is therefore fifth cousin once removed of Elizabeth II, second cousin once removed of the British Prime Minister David Cameron and first cousin once removed of the historian John Julius Norwich.

Elizabeth was aware of the political ramifications of the story of Richard II: according to a well-known but dubious anecdote, in August 1601 she was reviewing historical documents relating to the reign of Richard II when she supposedly remarked to her archivist William Lambarde, " I am Richard II, know ye not that?

Elizabeth is said to have remarked on the beautiful vista of the " far hills ," thus giving the name to the place before a village was built.

Some of Essex's supporters had commissioned a special performance of Shakespeare's Richard II in the hope that the spectacle of that king's overthrow might make the public more amenable to the overthrow of Elizabeth ( who later remarked, " I am Richard II, know ye not that ?").

It has been remarked that Queenie closely resembles the character Violet Elizabeth Bott featured in the Just William books of Richmal Crompton.

Elizabeth Bowen remarked that Manning had " an almost masculine outfit in the way of experience " that influenced her writing about women and the war.

He also remarked that Queen Elizabeth II " didn't have bad breasts ... for a woman of her age " and mocked 17 October 1989, San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake with a re-creation on the set.

John N. King subsequently remarked in several articles, and in his English Reformation Literature ( Princeton University Press, 1982 ) that Crowley had support from Somerset via the patronage of Lady Elizabeth Fane ( or Vane ), wife of Sir Ralph Fane, one of Somerset's close supporters, who was executed shortly after Somerset in 1552.