Harry Martindale Speechly

Harry Martindale Speechly (1 November 1866 – 17 March 1951) was a Canadian medical doctor.

Speechly was the son of John Martindale Speechly, the first Bishop of Travancore and Cochin, India, and Mary Gray née Grove. He was born in Cochin on 1 November 1866.

He was educated at Monkton Combe School and The Perse School and St John's College, Cambridge. He began his medical studies at London Hospital in 1884, graduating with the degrees of M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P.Lon. and practiced medicine in Parkgate until emigrating to Canada in 1901.

Speechly died in Winnipeg on 17 March 1951, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery.

Family Speechly married Mary Barrett, the eldest daughter of the Rev William Ferguson Barrett on 30 July 1895 in Neston, Wirral. His wife, Mary Barrett Speechly, was a well-known advocate for women's rights in Manitoba for over sixty years and founded the Winnipeg Birth Control Society, to provide poverty-stricken women with access to contraceptive information. They had a daughter and two sons: Margaret Mary Speechly, born 21 May 1896 at Parkgate, Cheshire, married Edmund John Stansfield 14 November 1925 in Winnipeg and died 30 June 1990 in Winnipeg. William Grove Speechly, was born on 5 July 1906 at Pilot Mound, Manitoba and died on 13 July 1982 in Winnipeg. Leslie Barrett Speechly, born 13 April 1909 at Pilot Mound, Manitoba, married Agnes Gwendoline Smith and died 14 May 1997.