Britain's & Ireland's first woman veterinary surgeon


Arno Constance or Custance, A. I. Custance, Miss Corstophine, familiar names? No?

All were pseudonyms used by Aleen Isabel Cust, the 3rd Earl Brownlow's second cousin, to circumvent a ban on woman vets.

Her chosen profession would entangle her in family estrangement, love, litigation, WWI and the Anglo-Irish war.

This web site links to timelines detailing the three principal periods of her life divided into,



Author: Ian Ross, Belton Research Group

Timelines constructed using either Sutori or knight lab TimelineJS