Charlotte Leighton Houlton

Charlotte Leighton Houlton CBE (23 October 1882 – 13 December 1956) was a British physician.

[1] Houlton was an obstetric assistant, pathologist, and surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London.

She first visited India in 1913, and from 1918 to 1919 taught as a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi.

[4] Houlton was secretary of the Countess of Dufferin Fund, and helped plan the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.

[5] Her professional publications included "An Investigation of the Bacteria of the Vagina in Pregnancy" (British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1924).