Person Sherlock; Dame; Sheila Patricia Violet (1918 - 2001) Sherlock Sheila Patricia Violet Dame 1918 - 2001 British Female Dublin, Ireland 31/03/1918 19180331 London 30/12/2001 20011230

Hepatology Education: Folkestone County School for Girls; Edinburgh University (1936). MB BCh (1941); MD (1945) Career: Graduated as Eccles Scholar (top of class); Clinical Assistant to Sir James Learmonth; House Physician, Hammersmith Hospital and Postgraduate School, London (1942); studied the biochemistry of the liver and the effects of malnutrition on the liver; Rockefeller Travelling Fellow, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Yale (1947); Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician, Hammersmith Hospital (1948-1959); Professor of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London (1959-1983) (first woman to hold a chair in Medicine); editor of Gut, the journal of the British Society of Gastroenterology; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London Honours: DBE 1978 Memberships: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (founder member 1950); FRCP (1951, youngest woman elected and first woman Vice-President); British Society of Gastroenterology (President) Married (1951) Geraint James, physician; two daughters Fellow 10/05/2001 83 AssocMaterial: NCUACS 142/7/05. Papers deposited in the Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre, London. Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 475-494, plate, by Mark Pepys International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 31 Mar 1918 - 30 Dec 2001 NA6898 21/11/2001 Andyg Gudrun 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/7397065 935eac29-27d0-44f8-aa71-25c35593d3bc