Felicia Walmsley

Sarah Margaret Felicia Walmsley (1895 – 1971) was a New Zealand doctor and photographer.

Photography Walmsley was a member of the Dunedin Photographic Society and wrote "A History of the Dunedin Photographic Society" which was published in the Australasian Photo Review in 1920. She was accomplished in portraiture and artificial light photography winning prizes for her photos. and first prize for Lilies, a portrait of a woman holding lilies, in the A.P.-R. Home portrait or group competition.

Following a trip to Fiji and Tonga in 1916 she had an essay on photography "To the "Summer isles of Eden" with a vest pocket Kodak" published in the Australasian Photo Review in 1918. It seems most likely that she gave up art photography early in her medical career. and in 1922, as a third year medical student, was one of ten women medical students including Muriel Bell and Helen Deem. She qualified with her MB ChB in 1926. In January 1928, she was appointed as a house surgeon at Gore Hospital moving to the same position at Timaru Hospital in August 1928.

She gained a Diploma in Public Health from the University of London in 1931. In 1932, she was appointed as assistant pathologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. By 1935 she had returned to New Zealand to a position as house surgeon at Southland Hospital.

Walmsley worked at Mount Coolon in North Queensland. Their nine year old son Evian Glendower Walmsley Meredith drowned in an accident in Dunedin in 1946. At that time she was working as medical officer of health in Timaru.

Walmsley died overseas Probate on her will was granted in December 1971 in Dunedin.