Attracta Rewcastle

Attracta Genevieve Rewcastle (née Candon, 1897 – 18 February 1951) was a doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy.

[1] Born in County Roscommon, Ireland, Rewcastle attended University College Dublin where she studied medicine.

As a result, Rewcastle was appointed to the Relative Rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the summer of 1940, and on 5 December 1941, she was made Temporary Acting Surgeon Lieutenant.

[3] After the war, Rewcastle served as a Conservative Party councillor on Westminster Borough Council, and ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for St Pancras North at the 1949 London County Council election, and Willesden West at the 1950 United Kingdom general election.

[4] In 1926, she married Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle, a barrister and former Liberal politician, later to become a QC and judge.