Grantly Dick-Read

Grantly Dick-Read (26 January 1890 – 11 June 1959) was a British obstetrician and a leading advocate of natural childbirth.

Dr. Grantly Dick-Read was born in Beccles, Suffolk[1] on 26 January 1890, the son of a Norfolk miller and the sixth of seven children.

[4] Dick-Read's ideas were at first ridiculed, and he was expelled from the London clinic he had set up with a group of fellow obstetricians.

When the Woking partnership was dissolved in 1934, Dick-Read set up a private clinic at 25 Harley Street.

He died on 11 June 1959 aged 69 in Wroxham, Norfolk, at a riverside home that previously had been owned by the UK ukulele entertainer George Formby.

[5] In his book Motherhood in the Post-War World he wrote, "Woman fails when she ceases to desire the children for which she was primarily made.