10 Facts About Margery Blackie

Margery Grace Blackie CVO MD, FFHom was a British Doctor of Medicine who was appointed as the first woman royal physician to Queen Elizabeth II.

Margery Blackie's daughter, the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, was a first cousin.

Margery Blackie's uncle Rowland Rees was an architect and politician in South Australia.

Margery Blackie studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, and qualified as a doctor in 1923.

Margery Blackie remained there until 1980, the year before her death.

At the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, Margery Blackie was an assistant physician from 1927 to 1957, and spent some of that time as assistant to Dr Douglas Borland in the Children's Department.

Margery Blackie became senior consultant physician from 1957 to 1966.

In 1968, Dr Margery Blackie succeeded physician Sir John Weir GCVO to become Physician to Queen Elizabeth II, the first woman to hold this position.

Dr Margery Blackie was admitted to the Royal Victorian Order in the rank of Commander in 1979.

The Margery Blackie Foundation Trust is a charity that gives research grants and financial help to "medically qualified health care professionals".