MacGregor, Jessie McLaren

This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive

Scope and Content

Birth certificate of J. M. MacGregor 1863; certificates 1881-1895; correspondence 1893-1897; photocopies of newspaper reports of death 1906; photographs; prints of watercolours

Administrative / Biographical History

Born in 1863 and died in 1906. She studied medicine at Edinburgh School of Medicine from 1881-1895, winning distinctions and gaining the highest degree by a female doctor up to that time.

Arrangement

Chronological within record class

Access Information

None

Acquisition Information

Sheila Hugh, California, September 1991 and July 1996

Note

Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists

Other Finding Aids

Manual item-level descriptive list available

Custodial History

Papers held within family

Accruals

No further accessions are expected