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
Frederick Jamieson ran for a second term in the 1935 Alberta general election but was defeated finishing in fourteenth place on the first vote count. Frederick Jamieson Frederick Charles Jamieson (May 18, 1875 – October 4, 1966) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1931 until 1935 sitting with the Conservative caucus in opposition. Jamieson ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on January 9, 1931 as a Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Edmonton. He faced three other high-profile opponents including former MLA