Isobel Hilary Grant

Isobel Hilary Grant (“Hilary”) was born in Edinburgh, the third child of two general practitioners in Carlisle. After education at Red Gables School in Carlisle and Malvern Girls’ College, she trained in medicine at Newnham College, Cambridge, (1945-8) and University College Hospital London (1948-51). She held house officer posts in Doncaster, Manchester, Southampton, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London, then was a registrar in paediatrics in Manchester and King’s College Hospital, London. Between 1962 and 1966 she worked at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, first as a senior registrar and then consultant in paediatrics.

On returning from Nigeria in 1966 Hilary was appointed consultant paediatrician in Teesside, one …