Frances Ivens
British physician 1870-1944 · United Kingdom · On the map · Doctors · Died at 74
Mary Hannah Frances Ivens CBE FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris.
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![Frances Ivens inspecting wounded French soldiers in Royaumont, painted by Norah Neilson Gray (1920)[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/The_Scottish_Women%27s_Hospital_-_in_the_Cloister_of_the_Abbaye_at_Royaumont._Dr._Frances_Ivens_inspecting_a_French_patient._Art.IWMART3090.jpg/1280px-The_Scottish_Women%27s_Hospital_-_in_the_Cloister_of_the_Abbaye_at_Royaumont._Dr._Frances_Ivens_inspecting_a_French_patient._Art.IWMART3090.jpg)
Awards
About this person
For her services to the French forces she was awarded a knighthood in France's Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre.
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1870 to 1944 · aged 74
The same award as Frances
Margaret Ida BalfourBoth received Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Vivian Bartley Green ArmytageBoth received Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and GynaecologistsKhairuddin Mohamed YusofBoth received Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
