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 Jamieson (dentist) James Jamieson (dentist) Dr James Dalgleish Hamilton Jamieson FRSE FDSE (1875-1966) was a Scottish dentist and author. He was born on 10 September 1875 at 52 Rankeillor Street, a ground floor and basement flat in Edinburgh’s South Side, the son of James Jamieson (1841-1905), a surgeon, and his wife, Agnes Boyd. He was educated at George Watsons College. He then studied Dentistry at Edinburgh University graduating in 1899. He practiced as a dental surgeon from 52 George Square in Edinburgh’s South Side 1899 to 1955, and also seemed to have lived at the same address. The building was demolished by