Sula Wolff (1924–2009) a prominent British child psychiatrist, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 she and her family came to Britain. She graduated in Medicine from Oxford University in 1947.
At the Maudsley Hospital where she acquired a post-graduate training in psychiatry she became interested in the psychological problems of children. After the Maudsley Hospital she practiced in Cape Town and in New York. She married Henry Walton, a South African psychiatrist. They settled in Edinburgh where Walton became Professor of Psychiatry and she, in 1966, became a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She published Children under Stress in 1969.
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