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 Jamieson (diplomat) Studies, now the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in London. Jamieson died in London on 30 December 1920. Before his death, Jamieson completed a book, Chinese Family and Commercial Law, based on translations that he had prepared many years before of sections of China’s General Code of Laws. The book, which also included Jamieson’s translations of various cases from the International Mixed Court, was published in 1921. Jamieson published the following book: George Jamieson (diplomat) George Jamieson CMG (1843-1920) was a British diplomat and judge who served in China. His last position before retirement from government service was