Dr Margaret Hawksley

Dr Margaret Hawksley LVO MBBS FFARCS MRCS LRCP

27/12/1905 to 12/06/1985

Place of birth: Southsea, Hampshire, England

Nationality: British

CRN: 723668

Also known as: Peggy, nee Skelton

Education and qualifications

General education

Hall School, Weybridge; University College Hospital, London

Primary medical qualification(s)

MRCS LRCP 1930

Initial Fellowship and type

FFARCS by election

Year of Fellowship

1953

Other qualification(s)

MBBS, London, 1932

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

Early appointments included house officer in obstetrics & anaesthesia, both at University College Hospital, and in surgery at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. During WW2 she was in general practice with Dr Katherine Lloyd-Williams, and also worked part-time as an anaesthetist. She was 1st assistant anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 1950 and later became a consultant there, retiring in 1969. 

Professional interests and activities

A specialist paediatric anaesthetist, she was awarded LVO in 1970 for services to the Royal Family.

Other biographical information

Eldest daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Skelton, engineer in chief to the fleet, who had explored Antarctica in 1901-4. Married Dr John Callis Hawksley (a physician) in 1933, they had four children: Jane Margaret (1934-2006), Nicholas Skelton (1937), Thomas Joseph (1945) and Mary Elizabeth - Polly (1950). Interests: gardening, walking, music (piano, oboe, cor anglais) and needlework, including patchwork & tapestry.

Author and sources

Author: Professor D J Hatch, Dr W J Glover and Mrs M E Kaufmann (daughter)

Sources and any other comments: Personal reminiscences, Medical Directory