Dame Beulah Rosemary Bewley DBE (née Knox; 2 September 1929 – 20 January 2018)[1] was a British public health physician and past president of the Medical Women's Federation on the General Medical Council.

[3] In 1955, she married Thomas Bewley and moved to England where she worked in paediatrics for fifteen years, before undertaking a MSc degree in social medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,[4] where she was the only woman in the class.

[6] In 1982, she served on the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom.

[15] Their second daughter, born with Down Syndrome, defied early expectations regarding her health, and lived until the age of 44.

[16] Dame Beulah Bewley died from cardiovascular disease and dementia on 20 January 2018 at the age of 88 in London.