Irene Ighodaro
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Irene Ighodaro (16 May 1916 – 29 November 1995) was a
Young Women's Christian Association of Nigeria. She was also the first President of the Medical Association of Nigerian Women.[1]
Life
Ighodaro was born Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole in
University of Durham in England in 1945.[2] She later married Samuel Ighodaro of Benin City with whom she had four children; Tony, Wilfred, Ayo, and Yinka. They moved to Nigeria, where he became a judge on the High Court of Midwestern Nigeria.[3]
Ighodaro maintained a private medical practice and was a member of a number of western Nigerian medical advisory committees. She consulted the
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1958.[3]
Ighodaro died on 29 November 1995.[3]
References
- ^ Edet, Hope (2017-03-03). "IGHODARO, Dr. Irene Elizabeth Beatrice". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics of Africa and the ...
- ^ ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the originalon 2015-03-29.
Further reading
- Crane, Louise. Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1973.
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