Annis Gillie

Dame Katharine Annis Calder Gillie (3 August 1900 in Eastbourne– 10 April 1985 in Bledington, Oxfordshire) was a British physician and medical researcher. She was President of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the first woman to serve as vice-chair of the British Medical Association (BMA). The third BMA committee on general practice was set up in 1961 under Gillie and was charged with guiding the general practice in the United Kingdom.

Biography

Gillie was the eldest daughter and first of the four children of Emily Genn Dalrymple (née Japp) and Dr Robert Calder Gillie, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England. In 1927, she became member of the Royal College of Physicians.

She was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the college's chairperson from 1959 to 1962. Earlier in 1964 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She served on the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and on the Oxford Regional Hospital Board.

Personal life In 1930, Gillie married Percy (Peter) Chandler Smith, an architect. His architectural practice was destroyed during the war. Together they had a daughter, who also went into medicine, and a son.

Later in life Smith was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and depended much on Gillie in his later years. Smith died in 1983.

Gillie died at her home in Bledington, Oxfordshire on 10 April 1985, aged 84.