Fanny Jane Butler | |
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| Born | 5 October 1850 Chelsea, England |
| Died | 26 October 1889 (aged 39) Srinagar, India |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | London School of Medicine for Women |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | physician, medical missionary |
Fanny Jane Butler (5 October 1850 – 26 October 1889) was a medical missionary from England who was among the first female doctors to travel to India and the first fully trained doctor from England to do so.[1] Prior to her work in Kashmir and other parts of India, Butler was a part of the first class of the London School of Medicine for Women, becoming a member of the forefront of female doctors. Butler spent seven years in India until her death in 1889 and opened medical dispensaries in Srinagar and Bhagalpur, where no medical facilities had previously existed.[2] Butler also initiated the building of the first hospital in Srinagar in 1888 called the John Bishop Memorial Hospital and provided necessary medical care for Indian women, for whom little care had been available.[3]
- ^ Forbes, Geraldine. "Butler, Fanny Jane". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ Gracey, John Talbot (1898). Eminent Missionary Women. New York: Eaton and Mains. p. 132.
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- ^ "Mercy and Truth". Church Missionary Society London. 4 (37). 1900. Retrieved 16 December 2014.