Maud Chadburn

Maud Mary Chadburn (1868 to 1957) was a British surgeon and obstetrician, one of the earliest women in the United Kingdom to build a career in surgery. Born in Middlesbrough, the daughter of a Congregational minister, she studied at University College London and the London School of Medicine for Women, qualifying as a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1893 and taking her medical degree in 1894 and her doctorate in 1898. She held posts at the Royal Free Hospital as assistant anaesthetist, curator of the museum and surgical registrar, and served at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, where she was surgeon from 1903 until 1922 and for many years senior obstetrician. She also worked at the Women's Settlement Hospital in Canning Town, chaired the Cancer Research Committee of the Marie Curie Hospital and was president of the London Association of the Medical Women's Federation. In 1912 she co-founded, with the surgeon Eleanor Davies-Colley, the South London Hospital for Women and Children on Clapham Common, which always employed an all-woman staff.