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
James Edgar Jamieson James Edgar Jamieson James Edgar Jamieson (July 20, 1873 – June 17, 1958) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Simcoe West from 1923 to 1926 and Simcoe Southwest from 1929 to 1934 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member. He was born in Mulmur Corners, Mulmur, Ontario. In 1902, he married Sarah M. Crisp, a local schoolteacher. He owned a farm at Singhampton, later moving south of Collingwood. Jamieson served as reeve for Nottawasaga Township. He served thirty years on the executive of the Ontario Good Roads Association and was president in 1935. He