Carys Bannister

Carys Bannister was born in Recife, Brazil, in 1935. Her parents were Welsh and had moved from Aberystwyth to Brazil when her father took up an engineering job with the Great Western Brazilian Railway. After Bannister was born, the family moved to São Paulo and later Rio de Janeiro, where Bannister and her sister attended an American school. When their father was assigned to work in the Brazilian countryside, both daughters were sent back to Britain; Bannister was fifteen at the time. She was educated at a boarding school in Bramley, Surrey and Guildford County Technical College. In 1953, she won a state scholarship and successfully applied to Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1958. ==Career==

Bannister began working as a house surgeon in 1958. ==Honours==

Bannister received an OBE in 1999 for her services to neurosurgery in Manchester. She was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 2001 for her research on hydrocephalus. The Carys Bannister Building at the University of Manchester is named in her honour. ==Personal life==

Bannister was a rally car driver in her free time. ==See also==