INGLIS, ELSIE MAUD (1864-1917), British physician and surgeon, was born at Naini Tal, India, on Aug. 16, 1864. After a childhood spent in India and Australia, in 1878 she settled with her family in Edinburgh. She studied at the school of medicine for women in Edinburgh, and at St. Margaret's college, Glasgow, graduating M.B. and C.M. In 1895 she took up private practice in Edinburgh and was instrumental in establishing a second school of medicine for women in that city. Dr. Inglis became one of the most prominent suffrage workers in Scotland. She became in 1892 to the New Hospital for Women, London (afterwards the Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson hospital), and later on co-surgeon at an Edinburgh dispensary. She was one of the founders of the Edinburgh hospice for women (est. 1901), at that time the only maternity training centre in Scotland managed by women. She began private practice in Edin burgh in 1895. In Aug. 1914, inspired by her, a special com mittee of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies, aided by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, undertook the organization of the Scottish women's hospitals for foreign service, and raised 449,000. She first went to Serbia in April 1915 to relieve Dr. Soltau at Kragujevac. In November, during the enemy invasion of Serbia, Dr. Inglis and a few others remained behind until Feb. 1916 as prisoners of the enemy to care for the Serbian wounded. In Aug. 1916 she took a unit to the Dobruja for service with the newly-formed Serbian division attached to the Russian army. She was seriously enfeebled by the hardships endured, and died (Nov. 26, 1917) the day after landing in England.
See Lady Frances Balfour, Dr. Elsie Inglis (1918) ; and Mrs. Shaw McLaren, Elsie Inglis (192o) .