William Blair-Bell

William Blair-Bell was a British medical doctor and gynaecologist, born on 28 September 1871 at Rutland House in New Brighton and dying on 25 January 1936 in Shrewsbury. He is remembered above all as the founder of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, established in 1929, the professional body that gave the field its own institutional home in Britain. He is described as the greatest gynaecologist of the twentieth century, because he helped raise gynaecology from what had been a branch of general surgery into a separate medical specialism with its own training and standards. His life and career are the subject of a biography by Sir John H. Peel.