BRITAIN'S first female pharmacist, Fanny Deacon, is set to be honoured by Leicestershire County Council, almost 100 years after her death.
The daughter of a pharmacist, Deacon worked in her father's store, where she discovered the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's syllabus, and decided to sit the registration exams.
She initially registered with the Society in 1869, but was barred from joining what was then a "boys' club" for a decade until its memberships were amended to allow women to join the profession.
Announcing the plan to place a plaque outside the building where Deacon ran her own pharmacy in the village of Fleckney 14km south of Leicester, from 1875 until her death in 1930, the Council's Chair, Dr Kevin Feltham, described her as a "true pioneer and trailblazer".
"By qualifying as a pharmacist at a time when the profession was dominated by men and female chemists were few and far between, she helped to break down the traditional barriers and pave the way for other women in the medical and scientific field," he said.
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