Beryl Dorothy Corner OBE (1910–2007) was a medical doctor and committed ChristianSee Electoral Rolls of the Parish of Christ Church Clifton, for 1980-2007 who specialised in the care and treatment of children and pioneered neonatology – care of the newborn.
She excelled as a medical student at the London School of Medicine for Women but then had trouble finding a post at institutions like Great Ormond Street Hospital because she was a woman. She established a career at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and, for several years, she was the only paediatrician in South West England. She was admitted to the British Paediatric Association in 1945. Corner established a unit to care for newborn babies. With a budget of £100 she was able to halve mortality rates.Health: Before the revolution, 16 June 1998, BBC, Retrieved 14 April 2017 In 1948 she was the consultant paediatrician who oversaw the first caesarian birth of four quads born at Bristol.The Good Story, Retrieved 14 April 2017
Corner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year's Honours list shortly before she died in 2007, aged 96.
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