Dr Isabel Venters
Born: 1869
Died: 1940
Dr Isabel Venters studied medicine at Edinburgh University under Dr Sophia Jex Blake and qualified as soon as the medical degree was open to women. She was the first resident at the Bruntsfield Hospital – a hospital and dispensary for women and children opened by Sophia Jex Blake in 18781.
Along with Dr Marian Erskine, Dr Venters gave up her time to volunteer with the National Vigilance Association, assessing the medical needs of girls who had come to the charity for help.
Position/s
Executive Committee member of the National Vigilance Association (Eastern Division), later The Guild of Service2
Member of the Scottish University Suffrage Association3
The Scotsman, 13th October 1934
1. Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, 14 March 1940
2. NVA and Guild of Service Annual Reports
3. Thomson, Elaine: Women in Medicine in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Edinburgh: a case study’ (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998), p74