Joan Morice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joan Morice

the first woman to qualify and practice as a veterinary surgeon in South Africa

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1944

Profession: veterinarian

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Joan Alison Morice (1904-1944) was the first woman to qualify and practice as a veterinary surgeon in South Africa.
She graduated from Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa in 1927 and it was nineteen years later that the next woman, Maud Bales, qualified as a veterinary surgeon in South Africa.
Morice immediately started a private veterinary practice which lasted until 1935.
She died at an early age from cancer in 1944.