Description:Submitted by Alison Smith, Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service.
Martha Beatrice Webb, teacher, physician and pioneer of social medicine in Birmingham was born in Furness Vale, Cheshire in 1863. Daughter of Philip H and Frances Webb and elder sister to James H P Webb. She was educated privately at Broom Bank, Stockport and, after a period of poor health in her late teens, attended Newnham College Cambridge where she took the natural science tripos in 1890. Webb was appointed assistant mistress at Edgbaston High School for Girls in 1890 and taught here for the next ten years. Relatively late in life, Webb became a medical student at the newly formed Medical School in Birmingham, 1902-7, and graduated MB, ChB at Edinburgh in 1907, proceeding to MD in the following year. She died in Birmingham in February 1951.
Image taken from 'Edgbaston High School 1876-1976', L48.233