Blackadder, Agnes Forbes ♀

Education

Student U.C.D. [University College Dundee] 1892-1893 Jun. Math.; Chem.; Prac. Chem.; Sen. Lat.; Log. 1893-1894 N. Phil.; Eng. Lit.; Log. 1894-1895 Anat. & Prac. Anat.; Zool. Also at U.C.D. 1897-1898.

M.A. 29.3.1895

Birth/childhood

Born 4.12.1875 daughter of Robert Blackadder, architect and civil engineer, Dundee and Agnes Sturrock.

Attended Dundee High School.

Career

First woman graduate of St Andrews University.

Also at Glasgow University - M.B. Ch.B. 1898. M.D. 1901.

Married Dr. Thomas D. Savill in 1901 - she was widowed in 1910. Consultant in London. Physician to St John’s hospital for women 1904. [Doctor]

Published on dermatology and history.

A System of Clinical Medicine. 3rd ed. (by Thomas Dixon Savill, revised by Agnes Savill). (New York: William Wood, 1912)

The Hair and Scalp, a Clinical Study. 3rd ed. (London: Edward Arnold, 1944)

Music, Health and Character (London: Lane, [1923])

Acute Dilation of the Heart in Children: M.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1901

etc.

Death

Died 12.5.1964.

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