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
Jamieson Parker Jamieson Parker Jamieson Kirkwood Parker (January 28, 1895 – December 8, 1939) was an American government administator and architect from Oregon, working primarily in Portland and Salem. He worked as an architect for the better part of two decades, before changing to federal and state government work, culminating in his serving as director of the Oregon division of the Federal Housing Administration from mid-1935 until his death in late 1939. Jamieson Parker was born in Portland, Oregon, on January 28, 1895. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1916, and began working as an architect in Portland shortly thereafter.