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 George Auldjo Jamieson George Auldjo Jamieson FRSE (1 May 1828 – 18 July 1900) was a Scottish businessman, chartered accountant and local councillor. George Auldjo Jamieson was born in Aberdeen the son of Dr James Jamieson MD HEICS (1790-1867) and his second wife, Anne Maria Auldjo, and raised at 20 Queen Street and 4 Castle Brae in Aberdeen, but the family moved to Edinburgh in his youth. His maternal grandfather, George Auldjo, had been Lord Provost of Aberdeen 1791-2. His paternal grandfather was Robert Jamieson, a surgeon in Fraserburgh. From 1837 to 1842 he attended Aberdeen Grammar School under James