Hilda Lloyd

Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd, DBE (née Shufflebotham; 1891–1982) was a British physician and surgeon.

Born in Birmingham, the younger of two daughters, she attended King Edward VI High School, Edgbaston before entering Birmingham University (Interc BSc Pure Science, 1914, MBChB Medicine, 1916).

[1] In 1930, she married Arthur Lloyd, a pathologist who became professor of forensic medicine in Birmingham University two years later; they had no children.

[2] After house officer posts in London, she returned to Birmingham University as resident in obstetrics and gynaecology, passed her FRCS in 1920.

The "flying squads" she pioneered helped to save the lives of mothers and babies who would otherwise have died.