Helen Leyton
Helen Gertrude Leyton (other married names Stewart and Grünbaum, fl. 1905 – 1930) was a British pathologist.
Biography
[edit]She gained an MB ChB from the University of Birmingham and the London School of Medicine for Women in 1905, and an MD from the University of Birmingham in 1908.[1]
She worked as a deputy professor of pathology at Leeds University; a pathologist at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital; and an assistant to the Metropolitan Asylums Board.[2]
After the death of her first husband, medical doctor Robert Stewart, she married fellow pathologist A. S. Grunbaum in 1909.[3] The pair changed their names from Grünbaum to Leyton in 1915 during the anti-German sentiment of World War I.[4] This "husband and wife team" published together from 1916 in pathology.[5][6]
With her son Geoffrey Bertrand Leyton, she patented an improved circular knitting machine in 1930.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ The Medical Directory ...: London, Provinces, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Abroad, Navy, Army & Air Force. J. & A. Churchill, Limited. 1958. p. 1277.
- ^ Medical Press. 1943. p. 126.
- ^ Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. Oliver & Boyd. 1922. p. 111.
- ^ "The London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette. 17 August 1915. p. 8207.
- ^ Tansey, Tilli (15 January 2015). "Women and the early Journal of Physiology". The Journal of Physiology. 593 (2): 347–350. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2014.288258. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 4303378. PMID 25630254.
- ^ O'Connor, W. J. (1991). British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary. Manchester University Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-7190-3282-0.
- ^ DE579764C, "Circular knitting machine", issued 8 July 1933