Question: who became the first english woman to qualify as a doctor
Answer: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ( 9 June 1836 -- 17 December 1917 ) was an English physician and suffragist , and the first woman to openly qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon , and the first woman to do so since James Barry She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women , the first dean of a British medical school , the first female doctor of medicine in France , the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and , as Mayor of Aldeburgh , the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain .