Martha Beatrice Webb (medical doctor)
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Martha Beatrice Webb (1863 – 1951) was an English medical doctor and lecturer who worked to maintain the health of working women during World War I. She left behind publications on practical health and a letter-book describing her experience at medical school.
She was born 20 October 1863 in Disley, Cheshire, the elder of two children of cotton manufacturer Philip Webb and his wife Frances, née Richards. She was educated privately and, after a four-year period of ill health which she later attributed to anaemia, she studied natural sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1887–90.[1]
Medical studies
After a ten-year career as a science teacher at Edgbaston High School for Girls, she returned to what she felt was her first vocation of medical science. She studied at the University of Birmingham Medical School between 1902 and 1908. Her letter-book records her experience as one of the first women medical students there.[2][3][4] Upon graduating with an MB ChB from Edinburgh in 1907 and MD in 1908, she established a general practice from her home in Edgbaston, where she practiced for 25 years.[1]
