File talk:Miss Pailthorpe. Photograph by T.C. Turner. Wellcome V0028336.jpg

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As her name is unusual, and the image is in the Wellcome Collection, this may be Mary Pailthorpe, graduate from London School of Medicine who went to work as a missionary with Mary Scharlieb in Madras, India. Some more information about her life can be found here, I have been unable to find firm dates of birth/death or actual confirmation that this photograph is of the woman described in the links below. -- Deadstar (msg) 15:50, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

North London Collegiate School - Mary Pailthorpe left Cambridge, the second Girton graduate to achieve first class honours in Mathematics and then attended the London School of Medicine from 1881, becoming the first ONL to qualify as a medical doctor. Determined to use her talents and knowledg beyond the boundaries of the UK, Mary travelled to India and worked for 27 years there as a medical missionary
  • Mary Pailthorpe, an MBBS degree holder from the Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK, who had trained at the Royal Free Hospital, Camden, England, joined [Mary Ann] Scharlieb at Royal Victoria Hospital for Caste and Gosha Women (RVH) in Madras as Resident Medical Officer in 1885. [1]
  • Mentioned as a graduate [2]
  • "Mrs. Scharlieb has been fortunate enough to secure another graduate of the University of London, Miss Pailthorpe, M.B., as junior medical officer." [3]
  • 17 02 1888 letter to FN from Mary Scharlieb re India, has not answered hers of 9th, wanted to suggest to Lady Dufferin if she to open a hosp or special ward for women to be officiered by women she mt appoint Miss Pailthorpe, MB, London visiting or consulting physician, [4]
  • 1893 - Miss Pailthorpe mentioned in a memoir "THE TRAVELS OF MISS HELEN CADDICK": [5].
"Miss Pailthorpe had a lot of brass things for me to see. Stayed tiffin at 3-30. Went over the hospital ― about 20 patients, room for 30 ― all women. It seemed very well managed"
  • Mentioned in Scharlieb's memoir: She slept and lived at the hospital, she worked under me, assisted me at operations, and had sufficient time to learn Hindustani. Miss Pailthorpe was an exceedingly well-qualified and delightful colleague, a woman who understood how to command and how to obey. [6]

There may be more information in the document listed here: [7]: Memoirs of Dr Mary Pailthorpe by THREE FRIENDS

@Deadstar: the photograph of Mary Elizabeth Pailthorpe here: https://100years.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/grace-pailthorpe-the-early-years/ looks VERY similar to this portrait, including the little round glasses. Does this info (and birth and death dates in the article) help to confirm your identification? Zeromonk (talk) 16:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Zeromonk: Great find - Thank you for this update! I think that is definitely proof that this is indeed her. The document it references is here, and it refers to the Memoir by THREE FRIENDS. I'll update the description! -- Deadstar (msg) 19:41, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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