Susila Anita Bonnerjee

Seated third from left is Dr Susila Bonnerjee at a meeting of the Church League for Women's Suffrage in Brighton, 1913. Newnham College archives, Cambridge. Susila Anita Bonnerjee (died 25 September 1920) was a medical doctor, educator and suffragist who advocated for women's education and health in England and India in the late 1800s.

Life and education Bonnerjee was born to Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee (a founder and the first president of the Indian National Congress) and Hemangini Motilal. She was one of six children (four sisters and two brothers), and was educated and lived primarily in Croydon, England, where her parents owned a home. They travelled frequently to their ancestral home in Kolkata as well. She went on to study medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women,

Bonnerjee initially practiced medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. She later moved back to her familial home in Kolkata, India, and worked in Delhi, at Cambridge Mission Hospital. Bonnerjee later joined the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, where she conducted research and taught physiology to students at Girton and Newnham Colleges.

During World War I, she was given a temporary post as Home Surgeon in a hospital in Bristol.