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
Ernest Auldjo Jamieson lieutenant colonel in the Army Flying Corps. He was twice Mentioned in Dispatches. After the war he went into partnership with James Alexander Arnott to form Auldjo Jamieson & Arnott. He retired due to ill-health in 1935 and died at Grey House in Murrayfield on 10 April 1937 aged only 56. He is buried in the 20th century northern extension to Dean Cemetery. The grave lies on the north wall near the north-west corner. In 1904 he married Mary Leslie Lassetter. Their son George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson was also an architect. Ernest Auldjo Jamieson Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson FRIBA