Beatrice Garvie

Beatrice Garvie (1872–1956) was a Scottish doctor who is known for her photography on the Scottish island of North Ronaldsay. She was one of the first women to become a doctor in Scotland and she worked as a missionary in India.

Life Garvie was born in Perth to a middle-class family. Her family employed two servants. Garvie was one of the first women to train to be a doctor in Scotland by taking the Triple Qualification. The British Medical Journal reported in 1891 that she was in the list of successful students who had passed the exams of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh.

When she had qualified she went to be a missionary in Rajputana. She was able to work with women in the Zenana.

In 1896 the Lancet recorded that Dr Beatrice Garvie L.R.C.P. L.R.C.S. had been appointed as clinical assistant at the Samaritan Hospital in Glasgow.

In 1913 she was working in Rotherham.

North Ronaldsay In the early 1930s, at the end of her career, she and her housekeeper and partner, Charlotte Tulloch, came to live together in "The Bungalow" on the island of North Ronaldsay when Garvie was nearly sixty. She was the island's doctor. She was living at a private hotel in Auchterarder after the war.