Gladys Helen Dodds was born in Kirkcaldy in 1898 and educated at Dunfermline High School. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1922 she held the posts of house surgeon at the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital and at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. She went on to study obstetrics in Dublin and in 1923, obtained the licence in midwifery of the Coombe Lying-in Hospital and the Diploma in Public Health. From 1927 she practised as a consultant in London and was for many years first assistant to the obstetrical unit at University College Hospital. Other appointments included those of physician to the Annie McCall Maternity Hospital, gynaecologist to the Bermondsey and the Tottenham Borough Councils, consulting gynaecologist to Bushey Heath Hospital, obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Hackney and Mile End Hospitals, obstetric surgeon to the Mother's Hospital, Clapton and physician to the ante-natal department of Queen Charlotte's Hospital. Miss Dodds enjoyed the distinction, rare among medical women at the time, of being a Fellow of both the College and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She passed both examinations the same year, in 1937. In 1940 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists having been a member since 1932. She was the author of a textbook, *Gynaecology for nurses* (1946) and of several important papers on the toxaemias of pregnancy. She died on 5 September 1982.