1844 - 1929 (85 years)
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Name |
Alice Vickery |
Birth |
1844 |
Devon, England |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
12 Jan 1929 |
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Burial |
Brookwood, Surrey, England |
- Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England
It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe.
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Person ID |
I143503 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
28 Jul 2019 |
Family |
Charles Robert Drysdale, b. 1829 d. 1907 (Age 78 years) |
Notes |
- Wikipedia describes them as life-partners
Vickery began her medical career at the Ladies' Medical College in 1869. There she met the lecturer Charles Robert Drysdale and started a relationship with him. They never married, as they both agreed with his brother George (also a neo-Malthusian physician) that marriage was "legal prostitution".
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Children |
| 1. Dr. Charles Vickery Drysdale, FRSE CB OBE, b. 8 Jul 1874, Paris, France d. 7 Feb 1961, Ashley, Filsham Drive, Pebsham, Sussex, England (Age 86 years) |
| 2. George Vickery Drysdale, b. 1881 d. Yes, date unknown |
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Family ID |
F56030 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
28 Jul 2019 |
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Notes |
- Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery; 1844 ? 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life partner, Charles Robert Drysdale, also a physician, actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and destigmatisation of illegitimacy.
Vickery sometimes added Drysdale's name to her own, referring to herself both as "Dr. Vickery Drysdale" and as "Dr. Drysdale Vickery"
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