Administrative / Biographical History

MB ChB Manch 1927.

The daughter of James Sinclair McGowan (see above), Kathleen McGowan (later Barnes), studied medicine at Manchester. She was clinical assistant to the out-patients department of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and house surgeon at Manchester Northern Hospital for Women and Children. She later married Richard Hibbert Barnes, MB ChB, and moved to Weymouth where she practised under her married name.