Portia Holman
Child psychiatrist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Portia Grenfell Holman was an Australian child psychiatrist who practiced in London. Early life and education Holman was born in 1903 in Sydney; she was the only child of William Holman, who would become the Premier of New South Wales, and Ada Augusta Holman, a writer. She gained a Bachelor of Arts at The Women's College of the University of Sydney, and in 1923 she enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in economics in 1926. She then went on to study at the University of Paris and the London School of Economics, before taking up a role in lecturing and research at the University of St Andrews from 1927 to 1933. She returned to Newnham College in 1933 to study medicine, and qualified in 1939 after completing her clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital. She put her studies on hold during the Spanish Civil War to serve as a medical auxiliary for the Republican faction.
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