Janet Greig

Janet Lindsay Greig (8 August 1874 – 18 October 1950) was a Scottish-Australian anaesthetist. In 2007, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

Early life and education Janet Lindsay "Jenny" Greig was born in 1874 in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, the second of eight children of textile merchant and higher education advocate Robert Greig, and his wife Jane Stocks (née Macfarlane) (1848-1902). She had five sisters and three brothers - Jane Stocks Greig (1872-1939), Clara Puella (1877-1957), Flos Greig (1880-1958), James Arthur (1882-1935), Ernest Howard (1884-1972), Hector Maximus (1887-1979) and Stella Fida (1889-1913). She was educated at the High School of Dundee until the family migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1889, where she then attended Brunswick Ladies College. Her father encouraged his children to pursue tertiary education, and in 1891 both she and her sister Jane enrolled at the medical school of the University of Melbourne. She graduated from the University, with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honours in 1895. She later became the first female anaesthetist in the state of Victoria, serving as an honorary anaesthetist at the Royal Women's Hospital during 1900–1917.