Trinidad Arroyo | |
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.jpg) Bust of Arroyo in Palencia, Spain | |
| Born | Trinidad Arroyo Villaverde 26 May 1872 Palencia, Spain |
| Died | 28 September 1959 (aged 87) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education | University of Madrid (1896) |
| Occupation | Ophthalmologist |
Trinidad Arroyo Villaverde (26 May 1872 – 28 September 1959) was a Spanish ophthalmologist. She was the first woman ophthalmologist in Spain and the third to receive a doctorate degree, obtaining her doctorate in 1896. She was a teacher and researcher at the University of Madrid, and she operated an ophthalmology practice with her husband Manuel Márquez. They were forced to flee the country in 1939 due to the Spanish Civil War, and they resumed their practice in Mexico City, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
Arroyo was politically active while living in Spain, serving as vice president of a women's anti-fascist association and participating in several feminist organizations. It was this, as well as her alleged ties with the Soviet Union, that made her and her husband targets of the Nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War. She was also one of the first women in Spain to vote in an election, a right granted to her by her position in the university faculty.