Roberta Cowell

Roberta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell (8 April 1918 – 11 October 2011) was a racing driver and World War II fighter pilot. She was also the first known British transsexual woman to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Early life
Roberta Cowell was born Robert Marshall Cowell, one of three children of Major-General Sir Ernest Marshall Cowell KBE CB (1886-1971) and Dorothy Elizabeth Miller (1886–1962).
Sir Ernest was a prominent surgeon who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I and became a surgeon at Croydon General Infirmary between the wars. During World War II, he again served in the army and was the Director of Medical Services for Allied forces in North Africa from 1942 to 1944. In 1944, he was made honorary surgeon to King George VI. Post-war, he was Public Medical Officer for the Allied High Commission (the Allied body that governed occupied Germany after the war).
Roberta Cowell attended Whitgift School, a Public School...