The first woman doctor from Aberystwyth: Mary Angharad Guy (née Hughes) (1905-1994).
Mary Angharad Guy was born one of three daughters of an affluent seafaring family. After preclinical education in Cardiff she proceeded to Charing Cross Hospital, London, for her clinical studies and on qualification worked with eminent men. She married John Guy, who became county medical officer for Westmorland, and they had three children. She gave up her career after marriage and it was another 15 years before she returned to work, to undertake school and baby clinics. She was a woman of outstanding promise and gifted artistically, but she was caught in a social trap between the wars, when women were expected to give up professional careers on marriage.
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