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
Christina Jamieson Christina Jamieson Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) was a British writer and suffragist known for her association with the Shetland Isles. Jameson was born to Robert and Barbara Jamieson on 30 June 1864 at Cruisdale, Sandness on the main island of Shetland. Her father was a teacher in Sandness and that is the school that she attended. She had six siblings. She and her mother moved to the main town of the Shetlands, Lerwick, after her father died in 1899. She is known for helping to form the "Shetland Women's Suffrage Society" in 1909 which became associated with the National Union of