Beryl Corner

Beryl Dorothy Corner OBE (1910–2007) was a medical doctor and committed Christian[1] who specialised in the care and treatment of children and pioneered neonatology – care of the newborn.

She excelled as a medical student at the London School of Medicine for Women but then had trouble finding a post at institutions like Great Ormond Street Hospital because she was a woman.

She established a career at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and, for several years, she was the only paediatrician in South West England.

[3] In 1948 she was the consultant paediatrician who oversaw the first caesarian birth of four quads born at Bristol.

[4] Corner was awarded the Order of the British Empire shortly before she died in 2007, aged 96.