Margery Davies
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10 January 1895
Margery Davies | |
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.png) Davies in a 1945 newspaper | |
| Born | Edith Margery P Davies 10 January 1895 Woolwich, London, UK |
| Died | 20 December 1984 (aged 89) Worthing, UK |
| Education | London School of Medicine for Women, Royal Free Hospital |
| Occupation | Doctor |
Margery Davies (10 January 1895 – 20 December 1984) was a British doctor and Girl Guide executive. She was the first female doctor to have a practice in Worthing.[1] She volunteered in post-war Germany with the Guide International Service (GIS) in 1945.[2]
Edith Margery Davies was born in Woolwich, London to Sidney Davies, a medical officer of health, and Lucy Davies.[3][4] She attended Blackheath High School,[3] studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women and qualified as a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in 1920.[1] She subsequently established a GP practice in Worthing.
In 1942, while she was out, a German Heinkel plane crashed into her garden and surgery, killing eight people.[2][5] She subsequently moved house.[1] After retiring in 1958 she moved first to Sullington and then to Ringmer.[1] In 1969 she travelled to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where she met Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne at a civic reception.[6]
Her funeral was held at Worthing United Reformed Church. In lieu of flowers, donations were request for the '"Margery Davies Memorial Fund" for the "furtherance of Guiding projects".[7][8]
