Derek Llewellyn-Jones
John Derek Llewellyn-Jones was an English-Australian gynaecologist and medical author. He was also a broadcaster for Radio Malaya.
Biography
He was born in the Wallaby, Merseyside, England, to a Welsh father and Irish mother. He attended Chester Kings School, in Chester, and he attended the University of Dublin,he became a naturalized Australian in 1976. His grandfather Frederick Llewellyn-Jones was a politician for the Liberal Party. He was brought up in Hawarden, North Wales. His father was a general practitioner, and mother was a doctor. He was subscripted to the army, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the United Kingdom and subsequently in Malaya.He was an associate professor of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sydney for 23 years from 1965.
He wrote Everywoman, the textbook Fundamentals of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ''Everyman and Everygirl.''
He was married to politician and actress Elisabeth Kirkby they have three children born in 1949 a, who is an actor, 1952 who is an actress, and 1955 respectively.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1964 Birthday Honours.