• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0635

Greig, Janet Lindsay (Jenny)

(1874 – 1950)
  • Born 8 August, 1874, Broughty Ferry Scotland
  • Died 18 October, 1950, London England
  • Occupation Medical practitioner

Summary

The daughter of merchant Robert Lindsay and Jane Stocks (née Macfarlane) Jenny Greig graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1895. She devoted her life to the service of women, especially in the field of medicine. One of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital when Greig retired in 1948 she had been an active member of the honorary medical staff for over 50 years. When the hospital added a new pathology block in 1937 it was named after her. Greig is recognized as the first woman anaesthetist in Victoria: she was honorary anaesthetist at the Women’s Hospital in Melbourne from 1900 to 1917, honorary assistant anaesthetist at the Melbourne Hospital in 1903 and was admitted as a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1940. Greig died will visiting London in 1950.

Published resources

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • A brief history of the Greig sisters

Related entries


  • Founded
    • Queen Victoria Hospital (1896 - 1977)
  • Membership
    • Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )
    • The Catalysts' Society (1910 - )
  • Sister
    • Greig, Flos (1880 - 1958)
  • Related Organisations
    • The Royal Women's Hospital (1954 - )