Ear, nose and throat surgeon. Born Edith Aileen Maude Whetnall in Hull. She worked at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and became the first director of the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre. Our photograph shows her (on the left) with Princess Margaret.
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Doctor Edith Whetnall
Dr Edith Whetnall FRCS, 1910 - 1965, consultant audiologist who pioneered the...
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Founded the Camden Road doctors' surgery in the late 1920s in the building where he also lived. Â He served there as a GP for 60 years, keeping the surgery open through the Blitz. Â It is one of the ...
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