Isabel Wilson

Isabel Grace Hood Wilson CBE FRCP (6 September 1895 – 8 December 1982) was a Scottish psychiatrist, who was Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health.

[1] Isabel Grace Hood Wilson was born on 6 September 1895 in Lasswade, Scotland.

Her parents were Susan Charlotte Sandeman and George Robert Wilson, a physician and psychiatrist.

From 1949 to 1960 she was a Senior Commissioner, after which the Board was abolished and her position was changed to the Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.

[2] She received a CBE in the 1961 New Year Honours for services as Medical Senior Commissioner at the Board of Control.