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Vickery V. Welch
Vickery is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alice Vickery (1844–1929), English physician and campaigner for women's rights *Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009), British information scientist *Eben Vickery (1910–1974), Australian politician *Ebenezer Vickery (1827–1906), Australian businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist *Edward Vickery (1823–1883), Canadian merchant, ship builder and politician *Frank Vickery (1951–2018), Welsh playwright and actor *Howard Leroy Vickery (1892–1946), U.S. Navy admiral and merchant shipbuilder *Hubert Bradford Vickery (1893–1978), Canadian-American biochemist *Joe Vickery (born 1989), English rugby league footballer *Joey Vickery (born 1967), Canadian basketball player *John Vickery (artist) (1906–1983), Australian artist *John Vickery (actor) (born 1950), American actor *John Vickery (footballer) (born 1951), Australian rules footballer *Joyce Winifred Vickery (1908–1979), Australian botanist *Lindsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Vickery
Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery; 1844 – 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life partner, Charles Robert Drysdale, also a physician, actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and destigmatisation of illegitimacy. Education and marriage Vickery was born in Devon in 1844 to a piano maker and organ builder. By 1861, she had moved to South London. Vickery began her medical career at the Ladies' Medical College in 1869. There she met the lecturer Charles Robert Drysdale and started a relationship with him. They never married, as they both agreed with his brother George (also a neo-Malthusian physician) that marriage was " legal prostitution". The society, however, generally presumed that the pair were married; had their contemporaries known that they were in a free union, their car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
