Mary Page Stone, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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medical doctor in the State of Victoria, Australia
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About Mary Page Stone
- Emily Mary Page Stone MB, BS (31 May 1865 – 18 December 1910), generally referred to as Mary or E.
- Mary Page Stone (sometimes hyphenated), was a medical doctor in the State of Victoria, Australia. Mary was born in Mornington, Victoria, a daughter of shopkeeper John Stone, and his wife Laura Matilda, née Reed.
- She was educated there and in England, training as a teacher.
- She returned to Melbourne, where she taught at various private schools before enlisting with Melbourne University as a medical student in 1889.She graduated after a brilliant scholastic career, being second in the top five for her graduating year.
- This should have entitled her to a position as resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, but was controversially disqualified because of her gender.She practised for sixteen years, first at Windsor then Hawthorn, before dying as a result of a fall from her bicycle after colliding with a dray.She was active in the cause of temperance, and an hon.
- secretary of the Victorian branch of the National Council of Women. Cousins Constance Stone and Clara Stone were also medical doctors.
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