Alice Headwards-Hunter

Alice Mabel Headwards-Hunter
Born29th May 1888.
India
Died11 September 1973
Known forFirst female Fellow of RCSEd
Child and Women's Health
Kaiser-i-Hind medal winner

Alice Mabel Headwards-Hunter, LAH, FRCSEd (late 1800s – 11 September 1973) was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She was born in India, educated in England and qualified as a doctor by becoming a licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall of Ireland (LAH).[1] To gain surgical experience she returned to India serving as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) then working at Peshawar Municipal Hospital. After beccoming the first woman Fellow of the RCSEd in 1920, she returned to India where she spent the rest of her professional life, caring mainly for women and children. The Indian Government recognised her service by the award of the Kaiser-i-Hind medal[2] and the Hunter Doig Medal, awarded by the RCSEd is named for her.[3]

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