Old Photograph Balmirmer House Scotland

Old photograph of Balmirmer house located two miles North of Carnoustie and four miles West of Arbroath, Scotland. This is the location of West Balmirmer Farm, the birthplace, in 1891, of Margaret Fairlie, the first woman to hold a university chair in Scotland. Margaret was the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Fairlie and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at University College, Dundee at the University of St Andrews Conjoint Medical School in Fife. After graduating she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, Perthshire, Edinburgh and Manchester, England, before returning to Dundee in 1919 where she ran a consultant practice for gynaecology. In 1920 she began a teaching career at Dundee's Medical School, which lasted for almost four decades. In the mid 1920s she joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she worked for the rest of her career.



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