Lillias Hamilton

Lillias Hamilton

Dr. Lillias Hamilton in 1895
Born 7 February 1858
New South Wales, Australia
Died 6 January 1925
Nice, France
Occupation British medical doctor, writer

Dr Lillias Anna Hamilton M.D., (7 February 1858–6 January 1925) was an English pioneer female doctor and author. After attending Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890.

She was a court physician to Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in Afghanistan in the 1890s, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War, published in 1900.

After a spell in private practice in London, she became Warden of Studley Horticultural College in the years before World War I, leaving the College in 1915 to serve in a typhoid hospital in Montenegro under the auspices of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee. Her other published works include A Nurse's Bequest, 1907.