Agnes Marshall Cowan

Agnes Marshall Cowan MRCOG (19 April 1880–22 August1940) was a Scottish physician who was one of the first fully qualified female physicians in the UK, and a medical missionary in Manchuria during the Manchurian plague. She oversaw medical issues in the "Devil's Porridge" explosive factory at Gretna serving the demand for explosives during the First World War. In 1934 she was the first Scottish female to be granted a professorship, but not until 1940 was a professorship granted within Scotland itself (Margaret Fairlie). Life She was born on 19 April 1880 in Edinburgh the daughter of Marion Dickson Wallace (1851–1932) and John Cowan. She was the sixth of eleven children and the family lived in a large stone villa in the Grange district in the south of the city.