Frances Ivens
Mary Hannah Frances Ivens Order of the British Empire, CBE FRCOG (1870 – 6 February 1944) was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded a knighthood in France's ''Legion of Honour'' and the ''Croix de Guerre''. Early life and education Ivens was born in Little Harborough, near Rugby, Warwickshire in 1870, the 5th child of farmer Elizabeth Ashmole (1840–1880) and her husband, William Ivens (1830–1905), farmer and timber merchant.Crofton, E. (2013) ''Angels of Mercy: A Women's Hospital on the Western Front, 1914–1918''. Edinburgh: Birlinn. She entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1894 at the age of 24, doing her clinical studies at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified in 1900 with the gold medal in obstetrics ...
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