Annis Gillie

Gillie was the eldest daughter and first of the four children of Emily Genn Dalrymple (née Japp) and Dr Robert Calder Gillie, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England. In 1927, she became member of the Royal College of Physicians. She was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the college's chairperson from 1959 to 1962. Earlier in 1964 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She served on the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and on the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. ==Awards and honours==

Gillie received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961, and was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1968. ==Personal life==

In 1930, Gillie married Percy (Peter) Chandler Smith, an architect. His architectural practice was destroyed during the war. Together they had a daughter, who also went into medicine, and a son. Later in life Smith was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and depended much on Gillie in his later years. Smith died in 1983. Gillie died at her home in Bledington, Oxfordshire on 10 April 1985, aged 84. ==References==