Dr Peter Lionel Carr Diggory (6 January 1924 – 22 November 2009) was an English gynaecologist and one of the first to support calls for the legalisation of abortion in the United Kingdom.
He studied mathematics at University College London, leading to work with C. P. Snow on the development of radar in the Second World War.
After the war, he studied medicine at University College Hospital, where he met his future wife, Patricia (died 2002), with whom he had two children.
At Kingston hospital, where he was appointed a consultant in 1961, he was responsible the care of the 400 women admitted each year suffering from the complications arising from illegal abortions.
[2] David Steel's Private Member's Bill was introduced to Parliament in 1966 and Diggory was involved in the campaign supporting it.