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, How & Co. Gifford, the managing partner at Calcutta became partner. It was dissolved in 1855 by the mutual consent of the partners. Jamieson, How & Co. The Jamieson, How & Co. was a British trading firm in the Far East existed in the 19th century. The firm of Jamieson, How & Co. was established around 1817 with Andrew Jamieson in Glasgow, his brother Robert in Calcutta and William M'Cracken in Liverpool. From 1835, Robert and Andrew became residents in Liverpool where the firm was under the name of Jamieson Brothers while it was under Jamieson, How & Co. in Glasgow. The Glasgow