Dr Louisa Garrett-Anderson

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://womanandhersphere.com/tag/louisa-garrett-anderson/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/22531360049/in/album-72157660822880401/
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Family information: Daughter of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and niece of Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Agnes Garrett.

Additional Information: Louisa chaired a meeting of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage (CSWS) in 1903 and subscribed to the London Society for Women's Suffrage (LSWS) in 1906?7. In 1907, she joined the WSPU, and although she protested about the NUWSS manifesto against militancy (penned by her aunt, Millicent Fawcett), she seems to have remained a member until 1908. In 1909, the Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) was founded in her flat in Harley Street, London, and she was on its executive committee. In 1910, she was in charge of the Medical Women Graduates Section of the WSPU procession, on 21 June that year. Louisa took part in the November 1910 deputation to the House of Commons and was arrested but, along with many others, was discharged. In 1911, she took part in the illegal suffrage boycott of the government census survey by refusing to give the information required at her home in 114a Harley Street, London. In 1912, she was arrested again during the window-smashing campaign and this time was sentenced to six weeks in Holloway Prison. She was involved with the running of a nursing home in Notting Hill, London, where many suffragettes were taken to recover on their temporary release from prison under the 'Cat and Mouse Act'. In 1913, much disturbed by the split within the WSPU between the Pankhursts and the Pethick-Lawrences, she resigned from the WSPU Kensington committee and joined the National Political League (NPL). In 1914, she became vice president of the United Suffragists (US).

Other Suffrage Activities: Louisa qualified as a surgeon in 1897. When war broke out in 1914, she was instrumental in the succesful formation of the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC), which adopted the WSPU motto 'Deeds not Words' and set up hospitals in France. In 1915, such was the success of the WHC that it was appointed to oversee a full military hospital in London. Louisa was its chief surgeon until it closed in 1919. After the war, she was made a CBE. In 1934, she became a Justice of the Peace, secretary of her local Conservative Association and chairman of her local branch of the League of Nations.