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| death_date = July 23, 1894
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'''Annie Wardlaw Jagannadham''' (1864 – 26 July 1894) was an Indian physician trained at Edinburgh. She was the first Indian woman qualified to practice medicine in Britain.

== Early life ==
Jagannadham was born in [[Visakhapatnam]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=1894-08-31|title=Miscellaneous News|pages=3|work=The Yorkshire Herald and the York Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63103308/miscellaneous-news/|access-date=2020-11-12|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> one of the six children of Rev. Pulipaka Jagannadham, a [[Telugu language|Telugu]] poet, teacher, and Christian missionary, and his wife, Eliza Osborne, a mission teacher, who was also a convert from [[Hinduism]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lazarus|first=D.|date=February 1897|title=The Late Rev. P. Jagannadham, of Vizagapatam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjEMAAAAIAAJ&q=Rev.+P.+Jagannadham&pg=PA18|journal=The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society|pages=18–20, 33–34}}</ref> Her older sister was Eliza Lazarus, married Daniel Lazarus, the headmaster of the Vizagapatam Mission School.<ref name=":0">Goffin, H. J., [https://archive.org/details/chronicleoflond1894lond_8/page/232/mode/2up?q=Jagannadham "The Late Dr. Annie Wardlaw Jagannadham"] ''The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society'' (October 1894): 232-233. via Internet Archive.</ref> Her brother P. Richard Hay Jagannadham was also a doctor trained at Edinburgh.<ref name=":0" /> Her niece was [[Hilda Mary Lazarus]] (1890–1978), an obstetrician and medical school principal.<ref>Brouwer, Ruth Compton. "The legacy of Hilda Lazarus." ''International Bulletin of Missionary Research'', vol. 30, no. 4, 2006, p. 202+.</ref>

== Education and career ==
Jagannadham studied at [[University of Madras|Madras University]], and pursued further training as a physician at [[Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women]],<ref>{{Cite journal|date=May 15, 1890|title=Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MukBAAAAYAAJ&q=Annie+Jagannadham&pg=PA316|journal=Journal of the British Dental Association|volume=11|pages=316}}</ref> from 1888 to 1890.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=August 15, 1889|title=Medical Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncNqFpDhtFUC&q=Annie+Wardlaw+Jagannadham&pg=PA363|journal=The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions|volume=20|pages=363–365|isbn=9780824037468}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 1889|title=Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDoSAAAAYAAJ&q=Annie+Wardlaw+India&pg=PA134|journal=Glasgow Medical Journal|volume=32|pages=134}}</ref> She was described as "the first Indian lady who obtained a registerable British diploma."<ref>{{Cite journal|date=21 September 1894|title=Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XiEYAAAAYAAJ&q=Annie+Wardlaw+Jagannadham&pg=RA1-PA506|journal=The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record|pages=506}}</ref> She was a student of [[Sophia Jex-Blake]], who supported scholarships to bring other Indian women students to study medicine in Britain.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Todd|first1=Margaret Georgina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JP9aAAAAQAAJ&q=Annie+Jagannadham&pg=PA504|title=The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake|last2=Travers|first2=Graham|date=1918|publisher=Macmillan|pages=504|language=en}}</ref> She also held a certificate in psychological medicine (MPC).<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1895–1896|title=List of those who have passed the examination for the Certificate of Efficiency in Psychological Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOIBAAAAYAAJ&q=Annie+W.+Jagannadham&pg=PR17|journal=The Journal of Mental Science|volume=41|pages=xviii}}</ref>

She was house surgeon at the Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children in 1890.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1890-06-30|title=Personal|pages=4|work=Boston Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63103674/personal/|access-date=2020-11-12|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=19 March 1892|title=Gleanings|page=3|work=Evening Journal|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204474388?searchTerm=Jagannadham|access-date=November 12, 2020|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> After returning to India, Jagannadham worked as house surgeon at [[Cama Hospital]] in Bombay, under hospital head [[Edith Pechey|Edith Pechey-Phipson]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|date=February 27, 1892|title=Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2h08AQAAIAAJ&q=Annie+W.+Jagannadham&pg=PA530|journal=Public Opinion|volume=12|pages=530}}</ref>

== Death ==
Jagannadham caught an illness described as "some painful disease of the throat" while working at the hospital in Bombay, and died in summer 1894, aged 30 years, at her parents' home.<ref name=":0" />

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