Eleanora Fleury dating history

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Eleonora Lilian Fleury (1867–1960) sometimes known as Norah Fleury was born in Manchester in 1867 to her father Charles Robert Fleury, who was also a doctor/surgeon. She was homeschooled in her younger years however she studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Woman and the Royal Free Hospital. In 1890 she became the first female medical graduate of the Royal University of Ireland with first-degree honours and a first-class exhibition. In 1887, Fleury came first in the list of the examinations in medicine at the Royal University and was commended for in the Dublin Medical Press. In 1893 she was awarded an MD from the Royal University of Ireland and won a Gold Medal. She worked at Homerton Fever Hospital in London and also in Richmond Asylum in Grangegorman and in Portrance now known as St. Ita's Hospital.