Ella Campbell Scarlett

Ella Campbell Scarlett (22 November 1864 – 30 October 1937) was an English physician who was the first woman medical practitioner in Bloemfontein, South Africa and the first woman doctor at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Canada. Early life and education Scarlett was born at Abinger Hall in Surrey, England on 22 November 1864. Her parents were Helen ( Magruder) Scarlett, niece of John B. Magruder, and William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger. In 1897, Scarlett studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital for five years, and spent some time in Korea at the Royal Court. On 14 December 1901, she married Percy Hamilton Synge. At the time of the wedding she was 37 years old and Synge was 29 years old.