Annie Reay Barker (1851–1945)
Physician. With Sophia Jex Blake fought to study medicine at Edinburgh University, 1872–3. MD, Paris, 1877. Licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland, 1878. Residential medical officer at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, 1878. Member of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, 1880. Admitted to Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey, 1895.
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BMD (Birth index)
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