Janet Rickord McCall Irwin AM (née Smith; 14 September 1923 – 20 March 2009) was a New Zealand medical practitioner who also worked in Australia.
In 1914, her father had left his first wife and children in Scotland and travelled to New Zealand with one of his patients Lucy Scott whom he married in 1921.
[5] Irwin studied medicine at the University of Otago for almost five years but disappointed her father by getting married before completing her degree.
[1][6] She worked at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh after winning a scholarship to study psychological problems in young people.
[7] Other spheres of activity included the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, the Brisbane Women’s Network and other lobby groups.