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Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick DBE FRACP FACP FRCP FMedSci (née Harvey Moore; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017) was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–92) and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust (1992–95).
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Background
Born in 1924 in London, she studied medicine at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (matriculated at LMH in 1943) and, later, at University College Hospital, London. After qualifying, she practised medicine at UCH and Royal Brompton Hospital.
She decided to specialise in thoracic medicine. She was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest. In 1972 she was appointed professor of thoracic medicine at the Cardiothoracic Institute (University of London), later emeritus on her retirement in 1987. She was also Dean from 1984–87 at the Cardiothoracic Institute (now the National Heart and Lung Institute). She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 1991–2000.
Turner-Warwick was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall in 1989. There is an Annual Margaret Turner Warwick Respiratory Lecture, started in 2006, as a collaboration between the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
On Thursday 16 April 2015, Turner-Warwick officially opened the Margaret Turner Warwick Education Centre for the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Royal Brompton Campus.
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Family
Turner-Warwick was the daughter of William Harvey Moore (d. 4 July 1961) and Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell (27 July 1895 – 6 December 1981), who were married on 23 March 1920. She was the grand-daughter of Sir George Baden-Powell and Frances Wilson (d. 29 October 1913).
She married urologist Richard Turner-Warwick (born 1925) in 1950; they remained married until her death in 2017. They have two daughters.