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
George Auldjo Jamieson Lindsay & Jamieson. Jamieson became a full partner at this point. In 1858 following James Haldane joining the firm it was renamed as Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane. The firm then relocated to 24 St Andrew Square. Over the following decades they acquired the two flanking buildings (23 and 25 St Andrew Square) and also opened branches in London. In 1858 Jamieson moved to the then newly built townhouse at 58 Melville Street in Edinburgh's West End. He was director of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and was president of the Society of