Mary Anderson

Mary Margaret Anderson CBE, FRCOG (1932–2006) was a British gynaecologist.

Anderson was born on 12 February 1932, in Forres, to a maths teacher mother and a pharmacist father. She trained at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1956, and eventually becoming the first female obstetrics registrar ever appointed at St Mary's Hospital in London.

Before retirement, she worked as a Senior Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at University Hospital Lewisham.

She served as Vice-President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1989 to 1992 and as a member of the Committee of the Future of Maternity Services, chaired by Baroness Cumberlege.

She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1996 Birthday Honours, "For services to Medicine".

She died on 17 February 2006, in Forres, the town where she was born, aged 74. She was interred in the family grave at Cluny Hill, Forres.

The Anderson maternity unit at Lewisham Hospital is named in her honour.