Roll of Licentiates, 1868-1948 First female Licentiates of RCPI

Roll of Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, recording name, residence and date of award of those holding the College's License to practice medicine.

Page of the Roll of Licentiates showing the signatures of the first five women Licentiates (names marked with red numbers). In 1877 RCPI became the first medical college or university in the British Isle to allow women to take their examinations. When Eliza Dunbar passed the exam in January 1877 she became the first women to receive a medical qualification allowing her to practice in the British Isles.