Helen Mair
Helen Elizabeth Mair | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 April 1924 Rotherham, England |
| Died | 14 March 2016 (aged 91) Benderloch, Scotland |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | University of Manchester |
| Relatives | Derek Senior (spouse) |
| Medical career | |
| Field | community health |
| Institutions | Medway Health Authority |
Dr Helen Elizabeth Mair OBE FFCM FRCPsych FRCP (18 April 1924 - 14 March 2016) was an English physician and medical author. She was Director of Public Health at Medway Health Authority.[1]
Biography[edit]
Mair was born in Rotherham, England on 18 April 1924 to James Alexander Mair, a director of education, and his wife Helen Sumner Mair, a headmistress and educational adviser to the Girl Guides. She attended Dr Williams' School in Dolgellau, Wales and studied medicine at the University of Manchester qualifying in 1948.[1]
After graduation she worked in positions at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. She was an assistant health officer for Manchester City Council from 1950-1956, and later Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham. From 1961 to 1963 she was Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Gillingham, going on to become Medical Officer.[1]
From 1974 to 1982 she was a district community physician for the Medway Health District in Kent, going on to become District Medical Officer.[1]
She wrote and contributed to several reports on children's day nurseries, children with Down syndrome, and mental health services including The mental health service after unification: mental health in a unified National Health Service – report of the Tripartite Committee (London, Tripartite Committee, 1972), ) and Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981).[1][2]
In 1959 she married Derek Senior, a freelance writer and journalist, who was a member of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England.[3] Together they had a daughter, Jill.[1]
She died at her home in Benderloch, Scotland, on 14 March 2016, after a short illness.[4]
Awards[edit]
In 1982 Mair received an OBE in the New Year Honours.[5] She was a Fellow of the Faculty of Community Health, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Munks Roll Details for Helen Elizabeth Mair". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ Wing, John K; Morris, Brenda (1981). Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192612762. OCLC 473837222.
- ^ "Senior, Derek, (4 May 1912–6 Dec. 1988), free-lance writer", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u168974, ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1, retrieved 27 July 2019
- ^ "MAIR - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Supplement to The London Gazette". The London Gazette. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 30 December 1981. p. 11. ISSN 0261-8575.
- 1924 births
- 20th-century British medical doctors
- English medical writers
- People from Rotherham
- English women medical doctors
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- 2016 deaths
- Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellows of the Faculty of Public Health
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English people