Background
Flora was born at Murraythwaite, Dumfries, Scotland, daughter of John Murray, a landowner and Royal Navy Captain, and Grace Harriet Graham.
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Education
She trained at the London School of Medicine for Women and finished her course at Durham.
Career
She then worked in Scotland before returning to London. In 1905 Murray was a medical officer at the Belgrave Hospital for Children and then anaesthetist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. Suffragette
She joined the Women"s Social and Political Union in 1908, and acted as physician to the militants.
She spoke at meetings and rallies, marched in processions, provided first aid at suffragette demonstrations, and looked after Emmeline Pankhurst and other hunger-strikers after their release from prison.
She campaigned with other doctors against the forcible feeding of prisoners. Women"s Hospital for Children
In 1912 she founded the Women"s Hospital for Children at 688 Harrow Road with Louisa Garrett Anderson.
lieutenant provided both health care for working-class children of the area, and gave women doctors their only opportunity to gain clinical experience in paediatrics in London. The hospital"s motto was Deeds not Words.
WW1
In the First World War she served in France with the Women"s Hospital Corps (WHC).
Their proposals were at first rejected by the British authorities, but eventually the WHC became established at the military hospital, Endell Street Military Hospital, Holborn, London staffed entirely by women, from chief surgeon to orderlies. Their motto Deeds not Words was used for the second time. Garrett"s tombstone reads "We have been gloriously happy".
Membership
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (8 May 1869 – 28 July 1923) was a Scottish medical pioneer and a member of the Women"s Social and Political Union suffragettes.
