Born Dublin shortly before her parents moved to London. 1929 the family moved to Kent. With difficulty (due to her gender) she managed to gain a place to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where she excelled. A professor of medicine, she because a world world authority on the liver. Died in London.
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Dame Sheila Sherlock
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Sheila Sherlock
Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, FRS, 1918 - 2001, world authority on the liver, pro...
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Edmund Alexander Parkes
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Sir Rowan Boland CBE
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Ernest O. Stuart, LRCP&S, LSA
County Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1909-1929. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
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Ladywell Mineral Spring
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Hazelhurst Road WW2 bomb
SW17, Hazelhurst Road, Sutton Courtenay House
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