William Overend Priestley

Sir William Overend Priestley was born in 1829 and educated at King's College London and in Paris. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1853 and settled in London, specialising in gynaecology. He was appointed lecturer in midwifery at the Middlesex Hospital in 1858 and professor of midwifery at King's College London in 1862. He later served as an examiner in midwifery for several institutions and was elected MP for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews in 1896. He died in London in 1900.