Constance Ottley
Constance Mary Ottley FRCS (1898 – 1981) was a British surgeon.
Life
[edit]She was born in May 1898 in Hampstead, the eldest of four daughters of Canon Roger Ottley and his wife Mary, née Alexander. Her mother, known as May, attended Somerville College, Oxford. May and Constance were both responsible for preserving the papers of their family friend Walter Pater.[1][2]
Educated at home, Constance joined the University of Oxford as part of the Society of Home Students, later St Anne's College.[3] She was one of the first women to receive a degree from Oxford when these were opened to women in 1920. She then secured the Oxford Gilchrist scholarship to the London Hospital[4] and trained under James Sherren and A. J. Walton.[3] She received her BM and BCh from Oxford in 1922.[5]
Ottley held positions as receiving room officer at the London Hospital and house physician at York County Hospital. After registration as a surgeon, she worked as house surgeon at the South London Hospital for Women, consultant surgeon to the Brighton Group of Hospitals, and surgeon to the local branch of the St John Ambulance.[3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1928.[3]
Ottley was the author of several scientific articles and, with C. F. Marshall, a translation from Hungarian of a book on the diseases of domestic animals.[6]
She died at Hove, Sussex, in May 1981.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ The Pater Newsletter. Department of English, University College of Wales. 1988. pp. 5–7.
- ^ Seiler, Robert M. (2014-01-13). The Book Beautiful: Walter Pater and the House of Macmillan. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4725-1372-4.
- ^ a b c d e Cornelius, Eustace Hope; Taylor, Selwyn (1988). Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1974-1982. Royal College of Surgeons of England. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-902166-03-5.
- ^ Oxford University Gazette Vol. 51 1920–1921. 1921. pp. 134, 611.
- ^ "Ottley, Constance Mary (1898 - 1981)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ "Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals / by Franz Hutyra, Joseph Marek and Rudolph Manninger". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
External links
[edit]- Papers by Constance M. Ottley held by PubMed