BAOT/COT: Elizabeth Casson - Time line

Some key dates:

14^th April 1881 Born in Denbigh, North Wales
1892	Attended St Mary's College, Paddington, London Studied housing management Family move to Gunter Grove, London and later Kilburn
1908-1913 Worked under Octavia Hill as secretary at Redcross Hall, Southwark 1913-1919 Medical student at Bristol University
1919	Graduated MB Ch B (first woman to do so) Held resident appointment at the West Herts hospital, Hemel Hempstead
1922 1925	Gained Diploma in Psychological Medicine and became medical officer at the Royal Holloway Sanitorium, Virginia Water Visited USA to investigate new profession of occupational therapy, visiting a number of departments.
1926	Gained MD Convened a meeting of medical women interested in psychological medicine which later became the standing committee on Psychological medicine of the Medical Women’s Federation
1927	Gained the prestigious Gaskell Prize and Medal of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. Later founded the Gaskell Club for winners of the prize.
1929	Established her own residential clinic – Dorset House – for women with mental disorders in Bristol and worked as its medical director.
1930	Founded the first school of occupational therapy in the UK at Dorset House, The Promenade, Clifton, Bristol
1938	Allendale Workshop for physical rehabilitation established Home in Bristol bombed
1940	Dorset House moved to Barnsley Hall Hospital, Bromsgrove, Worcs
1946-1964	Dorset House moved to the Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford
1951	Awarded the O.B.E. for her work as founder of the Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy Elected an Honorary Fellow of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Lived in Cleveden, Bristol
1954	17^th December Died from obscure anaemia aged 73. Buried in Backwell churchyard, Somerset. Headstone a Welsh cross.
1965	Dorset House moved to 58 London Road, Headington.