Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist.
11 Facts About Margaret Turner-Warwick
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Margaret Turner-Warwick was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick's birth was registered in St George, Hanover Square, London.
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Dame Margaret was the granddaughter of Sir George Baden-Powell and Frances Wilson.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick gained admission to study medicine at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, matriculating in 1943.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick continued her medical studies at University College Hospital, the teaching hospital associated with University College London.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick decided to specialise in thoracic medicine, a field undergoing significant change at the time.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick helped increase these changes with her colleagues Jack Pepys and Deborah Doniach.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick became a senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick was Dean from 1984 to 1987 at the Cardiothoracic Institute.
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Margaret Turner-Warwick was elected an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall in 1989.