Pamela Ball
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28 November 1926
Pamela Ball | |
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| Born | Pamela Margaret Moody 28 November 1926 |
| Died | (aged 92) |
| Education | University of Birmingham, Open University |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Years active | 1950–1991 |
| Known for | First Jamaican woman to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; hospital fundraising |
| Children | 3 (including Maggie Swinson) |
| Father | Ludlow Moody |
| Medical career | |
| Field | Orthopaedics, anaesthetics, plastic surgery |
| Institutions | Kidderminster Hospital |
Pamela Margaret Ball, née Moody (28 November 1926 – 16 September 2019) was a Jamaican-British surgeon. She was the first Jamaican woman to be named a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1954. After her retirement in 1991, she became an active fundraiser for Kidderminster Hospital, where she had spent most of her career, and served as president of the League of Hospital Friends. For her fundraising work, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours shortly before her death at age 92.
Ball was born in 1926 in the Half Way Tree area of Kingston, Jamaica to Ludlow Moody, a general practitioner and the first Jamaican to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and Vera Holme Moody, sister of Jamaican statesman Norman Manley. Ball's paternal uncles included Jamaican physician Harold Moody and sculptor Ronald Moody.[1]
Ball migrated to England during World War II.[2] In 1950, she qualified in medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1950. She was initially a house surgeon at Birmingham General Hospital. In 1954, she became the first Jamaican woman to be named a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[1]