179:. Remembering her election, a contemporary wrote "The consternation that arose in certain quarters is one of those things not easily forgotten." She travelled extensively in Canada in 1922 as the Council’s representative, leading to a reciprocity agreement between the Society and the province of Ontario. She also served as the Chairman of the Society's Benevolent Fund Committee. She was a strong supporter of the establishment of a University of London Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, instituted in 1924. She retired due to ill health in 1926. She was described in
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Clapham Pharmacy, three in the morning and three in the afternoon. In 1914, the school's principals were listed as Miss Margaret Buchanan and Miss SJ Heywood, one of Miss Buchanan's co-directors at the Clapham Common pharmacy. In 1917, a Miss D Maughan
154:. The first educational listing to include her name appears in The Chemist and Druggist journal on 16 August 1913 with the text “Miss Buchanan trains ladies in pharmacy. Apply by letter for particulars of courses and individual coaching.” She offered a 10-month course for the examination of the
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Westminster General Infirmary, the first registered Pharmaceutical Society member to hold the post. In 1892, she wrote that "it is becoming recognised by the public and the trade that women can be both business-like and well-trained scientifically, the
147:, Sophia Heywood and Margaret MacDiarmid. By 1923, of the 15 young women from the business who studied at the Pharmaceutical Society School of Pharmacy, 14 had taken prizes and scholarships. In 1924, she transferred the business to Borrowman.
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Chemist and Druggist later that year. She passed the Major examination in 1887, gaining a silver medal for taking second place in the Pereira competition, the first woman to achieve this.
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October 1914, she took the opportunity to establish a business that could also contribute to the position of women in the profession. Buchanan was one of four directors, all registered women pharmacists, alongside
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Buchanan was no longer associated with the school and Elsie Hooper and Katherine King was announced as joint proprietors. She also worked as Lecturer in Pharmacy at the
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number of lady-pharmacists will doubtless increase as the field further opens up." When Henry Deane's pharmacy at 16 The
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Buchanan summed her up as “
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