April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
George Auldjo Jamieson also remembered on the main Auldjo Jamieson family grave in "Lord's Row" in the main cemetery. He married twice. His first marriage was in 1860 to Mary Jane Souter-Robertson. She died in 1864. His second marriage, in 1867, was to Susan Helena Oliphant, daughter of Robert Oliphant WS. They had six sons and two daughters. His children included James Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson, who became an engineer in Newcastle, Archibald Auldjo Jamieson and the architect, Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson (1880-1937). His grandson David Auldjo Jamieson won the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. George Auldjo Jamieson George Auldjo Jamieson