9 Oakfield Road, Clifton, Bristol

Image: © Richard Hoare Taken: 25 Jun 2017

It bears a green plaque for Dr Eliza Walker Dunbar a pioneer in medicine. She lived here from 1882 to 1925. Born in Balarum, Bombay in 1845. Eliza Walker Dunbar was a British physician. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham, England. She studied medicine informally at St. Mary's Dispensary for Women under Elizabeth Garrett, before travelling to study at the University of Zurich, which would accept female students. Upon qualification, she returned to England and was appointed to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Within weeks of her starting, the entire male medical staff decided to resign in protest, leaving her as the only doctor at the hospital for five days. Over the following years, Walker would set up a number of private practices, including Bristol Private Hospital for Women and Children, as a small hospital focused on providing medical treatment of women by women. She died following a fall at her home in Bristol on 25 August 1925.

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