Margaret Ann Bulkley (Belfast 1795 – London 1865) was a surgeon and inspector general of the British army hospitals. Being a woman she could not study medicine and had to change her identity throughout her life becoming James Barry. She served in the battle of Waterloo, in India and South Africa. He fought for an ethical medicine that respected the sick, especially prisoners and lepers. He gave instructions that on the day he died he was to be buried in the clothes he wore but his wishes were not respected, it was discovered that he was actually a woman and had been pregnant. She became the first woman to graduate in medicine and to serve in the British Army.
