Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd, DBE (1891–1982), née Shufflebotham, was a British physician and surgeon. She was the first woman to be elected (in 1949) as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Born in Birmingham, the younger of two daughters, she attended King Edward VI High School, Edgbaston before entering the Birmingham Medical School, where she went on to earn her BSc and qualified with her MB, BCh in 1916.
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In 1930 she married Arthur Lloyd, a pathologist, who became professor of forensic medicine in Birmingham University two years later; they had no children.[1]
After house officer posts in London, she returned to Birmingham as resident in obstetrics and gynaecology, passed her FRCS in 1920. She was particularly concerned with the problems of urban poor women, such as STDs and illegal abortions. The "flying squads" she pioneered helped to save the lives mothers and babies who would otherwise have died.[2]