Jane Cummins
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10 May 1899
Jane Cummins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jane Grace Evans-Freke Cummins 10 May 1899 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 1 August 1982 (aged 83)[1] Warlingham, Sussex, UK |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Father | Ashley Cummins |
| Relatives | Geraldine Cummins - Novelist and playwright/dramatist (elder sister) Mary Hearn - Gynaecologist (elder sister) Iris Cummins - Engineer (younger sister) |
Jane Grace Evans-Freke Cummins (later Miller; 10 May 1899 – 1 August 1982) was an Irish doctor who served with the Royal Air Force Medical Services during the Second World War.[2][3]
Cummins was born on 10 May 1899 in Cork to William Edward Ashley Cummins (1858–1923), Professor of Medicine at University College Cork (UCC), and Jane Constable Cummins (née Hall). They had five daughters and six sons. Geraldine Cummins was a playwright, Iris Cummins was an engineer, and Mary Hearn was a gynaecologist and fellow of the RCPI. Two of her brothers also became doctors, and one, Nicholas Marshall Cummins, was involved in setting up the first blood transfusion service in Cork.[2][3]
Cummins' distinct name comes from her mother's grandmother, Jane Grace Evans-Freke, who was born in 1775 and married Sir Fenton Aylmer, 7th Baronet of Donodea Castle in 1795.[4][3]