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Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960)

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Physician
Born: 24 June 1872  Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 27 November 1960  Wellington, New Zealand.
Agnes Elizabeth L. Bennett practised in Wellington, New Zealand from 1905 and was Chief Medical Officer at St.Helens Maternity Hospital 1908-36.

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Chronology
1894Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1899Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1901 - 1904Private practice in Sydney
1904 - 1905Junior Medical Officer at the Hospital for the Insane in Callan Park
1905 - ?Private practice in Wellington, New Zealand
1908 - 1936Chief Medical Officer at St Helen's Maternity Hospital
1910 - ?Honorary Physician in the children's ward at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
1911Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh
1915First female commissioned Officer in the British Army
1916 - 1917In charge of a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian front
1923First President of the Wellington branch of the International Federation of University Women
1938 - 1939Medical Officer in Burketown, North Queensland
1940 - 1942English hospitals
1942 - c. 1945Lectured to the women's services in New Zealand on venereal disease and birth control
1948Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

 
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