Audrey Irene Freeth
Former consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Western
Hospital, Glasgow, and Vale of Leven (b London 1913; q Royal Free Hospital,
London, 1937; FRCOG), died from bronchopneumonia and cerebrovascular disease on
20 August 2004.
Born with absent vision in one eye she nevertheless became head
girl of the South Hampstead High
School for Girls. She entered the Royal Free Hospital, where she won the Gant gold medal in surgery
and the obstetrics prize, and was awarded the Hornblower-Cock scholarship in
medicine to tour the United
States. During the second world war she was
resident surgical officer at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital,
which included training demobilised medical officers for consultant posts.
She retired to Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, where she
founded the Minnoch Charitable Trust. [Derek Freeth]
