Sophia was born the 21 January 1840 and passed away the 7 of January 1912. Her father was Thomas Jex-Blake and her mother was Mary Jex-Blake.Sophia grew up in England and attended many private schools in Southern England and much to her parents objections she enrolled at Queens College. Soon she traveled to the united States to learn more about women's education and went to many schools before going to a hospital and deciding that she wanted to become a doctor.Soon after she applied to Harvard, but got rejected. Sophia did not find any English medical school that would take in women students but persuaded Edinburgh University Medical School (with Edith Pechey) to admit her in.
She argued for women also wanting to become doctors that they were required for people of their own gender that needed them.Six other women joined Sophia though they had to find their own segregated lectures, they also had many opposer's from townspeople to lecturers . Eventually the women had to agree to the fact that they would never get a degree from Edinburgh. Sophia failed her final exams (probably because of the fact that she spent a lot of time arguing with the women) but she did not let that stop her. She did not only help put together the London school of medicine, she also kept studying and campaigning. A helpful MP Russell Garney put forwards an enabling bill. That bill enabled that medical examining bodies would treat women doctors as they treated men.This bill was soon passed by the Parliament.The first place to take action of this new bill passed was Physicians of Ireland , but before she applied there, she passed her exams in the University of Berne where she was awarded an MD. After four months she went to the Physicians Of Ireland which meant that she could finally be registered as the third women doctor in the country . Sophia died the 7 of January, 1912.
