Florence Barrett

Lady Florence Elizabeth Barrett
Born	Henbury, Gloucestershire, England
Nationality	British
Education	University College, Bristol
Medical career
Profession	Surgeon
Field	Physician
Institutions	London School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital)
Specialism	Gynaecology, Obstetrics

Florence Elizabeth, Lady Barrett, CH CBE (1867 - 7 August 1945) was a consultant surgeon at the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton and the Royal Free Hospital in London. She was one of the leading gynaecologists and obstetricians of her time.

Lady Barrett was born in Henbury in Gloucestershire now part of Bristol, and she was the fourth child of merchant Benjamin Perry. Even though she received little formal education in the early part of her life, she studied physiology and organic chemistry at University College, Bristol, and graduated with a first-class BSc in 1895. She received a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) in 1900 and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1906 at the London School of Medicine for Women.

Barrett married surgeon Frederick George Ingor Willey, the son of Josiah Willey FRCS, in 1896.

In 1916, Barrett married Sir William Fletcher Barrett FRS. At the time of their marriage, Sir Barrett, aged 72, was a former Professor of Physics at the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Dublin. His research focused on psychic phenomena, and he later founded the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. She claimed to have conversed with her husband after his death in 1925 through the help of a third-party. She published an account of the sittings, entitled Personality Survives Death, in 1937.

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