The first British woman to qualify as a doctor was also the first female to become what in England?

Elizabeth (Garrett) Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist, the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first female doctor of medicine in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in England.

In 1865, she took her exam and obtained a licence from the Society of Apothecaries to practise medicine, the first woman qualified in Britain to do so.

On 9 November 1908, she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England. Her father was mayor in 1889.

She died in 1917 and is buried in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh.