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
Gavin Robinson (model agent) Gavin Robinson (model agent) Lawrence Gavin Bertran Robinson (25 October 1935 – 2002) was a South African model agent in London's Old Bond Street in the 1960s and 70s who was part of the Swinging London scene. His show at Mare Moda in Capri in 1969 was described by "The Times" as "as zippy, as nippy and as hippy as anything seen in London's West End", while a show for Harrods in 1970 was noted for his technique of making his models move to music like machines. Lawrence Robinson was from Durban, South Africa, born on 25 October 1935. He