Ann Dally Explained

Birth Date:29 March 1926
Birth Place:London
Death Place:Graffham, West Sussex
Education:Somerville College, Oxford
Known For:First woman to study medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London
Family:Gwen Mullins, mother

Ann Dally (29 March 1926, in London – 24 March 2007, in Graffham, West Sussex[1]) was an English author and psychiatrist.

Born Ann Gwendolen Mullins, she was the eldest child of the lawyer Claud William Mullins (1887–1968) and his wife, the weaver and patrons of the arts Elizabeth Gwendolen Brandt (1904–1997).[2] Dally studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She married Dr. Peter Dally in 1950. Dally was the first woman to study medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1953 and became a Harley Street psychiatrist.

She undertook controversial treatment of heroin addicts and was put on trial by the General Medical Council and the National Health Service. She wrote about her experience in A Doctor's Story (1990).

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  1. http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-38970.html Library of Congress Name Authority File
  2. 98642. Dally, Ann Gwendolen. Catherine. Crawford.