Mary Hemingway Rees
British psychiatrist
Mary Hemingway Rees (10 September 1887 – 4 October 1954), born Mary Isobel Hemingway, was an English psychiatrist.
Early life
Mary Isobel Hemingway was born in Melton Mowbray. She was the daughter of Charles Robert Hemingway, CBE, JP, a railway contractor.
Education
She studied at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, followed by medical education at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Birmingham.
Career
She qualified as a medic in 1914. After qualifying, she worked in obstetrics at Queen’s Hospital and Birmingham General Hospital. Between 1916 and 1918, she worked at St Chad’s Hospital, Birmingham.
After the First World War, Mary Hemingway worked as the resident medical officer at Bowden House, a nursing home for psychiatric patients run by Hugh Crichton-Miller. At Bowden, she met the psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees, whom she married in 1921. ‘J.R.’ and Crichton-Miller established the Tavistock Clinic in 1920, and Hemingway Rees joined the staff there as a psychiatrist.
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