Hilda Lloyd
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Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd, DBE (née Shufflebotham; 11 Aug 1891–18 July 1982) was a British physician and surgeon. She was the first woman to be elected (in 1949) as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Lloyd was born on 11 August 1891 in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, to master grocer John Shufflebotham and Emma Amelia Jenkins. The younger of two daughters, she attended King Edward VI High School, Edgbaston, before entering Birmingham University (Interc BSc Pure Science, 1914, MBChB Medicine, 1916).[1] In 1930, she married Arthur Lloyd, a pathologist who became a professor of forensic medicine at Birmingham University two years later; they had no children.[2] She died on 18 July 1982 in Clent, Worcestershire, after suffering a stroke.[3]