Dr Edith Margaret Taylor
Personal Details
Dr Edith Margaret Taylor MBBS FFARCS MRCS LRCP
07/02/1896 to 02/11/1955
Place of birth: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Nationality: British
Post nominals:
CRN: 715478
Previous/other family name: Maiden name Ross-Johnson: married in 1926
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Oswestry High School; Francis Holland School, London; Newnham College, Cambridge; University College, London |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBBS, London, 1925 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1948 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1925; For some reason she does not seem to have acquired a Cambridge degree |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Having completed her Cambridge studies she worked as demonstrator in physiology at the London (later the Royal Free) School of Medicine before completing her clinical studies. She was then resident medical officer at St Mary’s Hospital for Women & Children, Plaistow before being anaesthetic registrar at University College Hospital from 1926. She was appointed to the staff of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1929, and also worked at the Metropolitan Throat Hospital, the South London Hospital for Women and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, all in London. During WW2 she served as an anaesthetist in the EMS at the Neurological Hospital, Haywards Heath, Horton Hospital and the Hospital for Children, Tadworth Court, Surrey. Her career was cut short by her early death in 1955.
Professional interests and activities
Her great skill as an anaesthetist was based on her wide knowledge of physiology, and she was noted for her skill at managing thyroid surgery. She took a major part in the house committee of her main hospital (the EGA), improvements in the operating theatres there being due to her work.
Other biographical information
She married a surgeon, Julian Taylor, and they had two sons. Her great calm and courage were shown by the way she continued to work durng WW2 while her husband was a PoW in Changi, Singapore, and how she bore her final illness.
Author and Sources
Author: Dr Bob Palmer
Sources and any other comments: Obituaries (both with photograph). BMJ 1955; 1: 1211-12 & Anaesthesia 1956; 11: 182 | Newnham College, Cambridge