Rosemary Helen MacNaughton Adams

Rosemary Helen MacNaughton Davie was brought up in Beverley, east Yorkshire, where her father, Thomas Davie, was medical superintendent at the East Riding County Asylum, later Broadgate Hospital.

At Edinburgh University she was an outstanding student and achieved four medals, including that of most distinguished graduate of the year. She specialised initially in ear, nose, and throat medicine. In 1954 she married John Campbell Strathie Adams …