Lillias Hamilton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lillias Hamilton

British medical doctor, writer, educator

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1858

Place of Birth: New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1925

Profession: writer, physician, nurse, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Lillias Anna Hamilton (7 February 1858 – 6 January 1925) was a British pioneer female doctor and author.
She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton (1822-1900) and his wife Margaret Clunes (née Innes).
After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890. She was a court physician to Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in Afghanistan in the 1890s, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War, published in 1900.After a spell in private practice in London, she became Warden of Studley Horticultural College in the years before World War I, leaving the College in 1915 to serve in a typhoid hospital in Montenegro under the auspices of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee.
Her other published works include A Nurse's Bequest, 1907.