Moira Woods: pioneering physician, feminist, and social campaigner

bmj;381/may23_12/p1172/FAF1faKathleen Cecilia Moira Fann was born in London, to Kathleen (née Brennan) and John Fann, a British colonial civil servant. She later remembered being evacuated to Australia when the Japanese attacked Burma, where her father was based. She remained in Australia with her mother and sibling for three years until the war ended and they were able to return to England. Although she excelled academically, Moira’s rebelliousness ended with her being expelled from her second boarding school, and she flew to Kenya, where her father was then stationed. She attended school in Kenya and at 15 applied to various universities. Although she matriculated for Oxford, she chose to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, because they accepted undergraduates at the age of 16. In her final year, she won a gold medal for surgery, a medal for psychiatry, and the hospital prize for medicine.She married a fellow Trinity student, Roger…
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