page_title: Louisa Garrett Anderson
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Louisa Garrett Anderson / Death
caption_attribution_description: Women's Work (III): War Service. Miss Flora Murray (left) and Dr. Louise Garrett Anderson (right) leaving Buckingham Palace after receiving decorations. General Collections Keywords: WORLD WAR ONE; Flora Murray; Louise Garrett Anderson
context_page_description: Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, whose biography she wrote in 1939.
  Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women's Hospital Corps and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett, was a British suffragist. Her partner was fellow doctor and suffragette Flora Murray.
context_section_description: Anderson is buried at Holy Trinity Church with Murray, near to their home in Penn, Buckinghamshire. The inscription on the gravestone reads "Louisa Garrett Anderson, C.B.E., M.D., Chief Surgeon Women's Hospital Corps 1914–1919. Daughter of James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Born 28th July 1873, died November 15. 1943. We have been gloriously happy."
caption: Flora Murray (left) and Louise Garrett Anderson (right) leaving Buckingham Palace after receiving decorations
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