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Flora Murray
1869–1923
A pioneering Scottish doctor and suffragette, she helped prove that women could lead wartime medicine at the highest level. Her work with Louisa Garrett Anderson and the Endell Street Military Hospital made her one of the standout medical figures of the First World War.
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About the author
Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1869, Flora Murray trained first as a nurse and then as a doctor at a time when medicine was still difficult for women to enter. She built a career in London and became active in the women’s suffrage movement, combining medical work with a strong sense of public purpose.
When the First World War began, Murray and fellow doctor Louisa Garrett Anderson organized women-run military hospitals, first in France and then in London. They went on to lead the Endell Street Military Hospital, staffed largely by women and known for treating thousands of wounded soldiers with skill and efficiency.
Murray was widely respected as both a physician and an organizer, and she later wrote about the work of the Women’s Hospital Corps. She died in 1923, but her legacy lives on in the history of women in medicine, military care, and the long fight for professional equality.