| Tabitha Solomon | |
| Birth Date: | 15 November 1901 |
| Birth Place: | Calcutta |
| Death Date: | 30 July 1976 |
| Death Place: | Calcutta |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Citizenship: | Indian |
| Education: | Calcutta Dental College and Hospital |
| Occupation: | Dentist |
| Profession: | Dentist |
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Tabitha Solomon (born 1901) was one of the first women to qualify as a dentist in India, graduating from the Calcutta Dental College and Hospital in 1928. After graduation she started a dental clinic in the Chittarnjan Seva Sadan Hospital and worked at the Dufferin Hospital. A member of the Baghdadi Jewish community, she was closely involved in Jewish community causes.
Tabitha Solomon was born in 1901[1] into the Baghdadi Jewish expatriate community in British India.[2] She was one of the first women to qualify as a dentist in India,[3] [4] graduating from the Calcutta Dental College and Hospital (later the Dr R. Ahmed Dental College) with her Licentiate in Dental Science on 30 March 1928,[5] [6] five years after the only known earlier female candidate Fatima Ali Jinnah, who qualified in 1923 from the same College,[3] and sixteen years before Vimla Sood, who qualified in dentistry from De'Montmorency College of Dentistry in Lahore in 1944.[3]
Solomon worked with Rafiuddin Ahmed on the Calcutta Dental Journal and started a dental clinic in the Chittarnjan Seva Sadan Hospital. She worked at the Dufferin Hospital in an honorary capacity.[7]
She was closely involved in Jewish causes, serving on the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) and welfare committees, the Calcutta Jewish Association and the multicultural Calcutta Women's Committee.[7] [8]
Tabitha Solomon had two sons and a daughter, Eric, Charles and Hebe. Avi is Charles' older son born in 1956.[9]