Name Elizabeth MacGregor | ||
Elizabeth Janet Macgregor (née MacPherson) (1920–2005) pioneered the first successful screening trial programme for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom.
Biography
She was born at Lynedoch Place, Glasgow in 1920 to Andrew MacPherson (1888–1946), a company secretary and Jean (née Craig) (1886–1929). She is the younger sister of Andrew MacPherson a flying officer for the RAF who was awarded the first DFC of the Second World War in 1939. She also had elder sisters Agnes Jean and Margaret. She studied medicine at Glasgow University during the Second World War and eventually served for and became captain of the Royal Army Medical Corps. She then married her husband Alastair Goold Macgregor (1919–1972) who was also a medical student, in 1944 and had four children. They eventually moved to Aberdeen where Alastair became Regius Professor of materia medica in 1958.