Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, DBE (18 August 1912 – 28 December 1999),[1] known professionally as Dr Josephine Barnes, was a leading English obstetrician and gynaecologist.

[2] She was born on 18 August 1912, the eldest of five children of Methodist minister Walter Wharton Barnes and Alice Mary, née Ibbotson.

[3] When the Second World War started, she was appointed to a post at the Samaritan Hospital.

From 1947 she ran a mobile obstetric team from University College Hospital.

[2] She was a Friend of the English Pocket Opera Company and a Guardian of Westminster Abbey.