April Ashley
Feb. 02, 1970 - April Ashley marriage void because She is not a woman': Sex change model April Ashley, yesterday heard a divorce court judge rule that she is not a women. Mr. Justice Ormrod said She is not a woman for the purposes of marriage, but in a biological male and has been so since birht. The judge ruled that Miss Ashley's marriage to Mr. Arthur Cameron Corbett, 50 year old heir to Lord Rowallan, was void. Miss Ashley was born George Jamieson in Liverpool in 1935 and underwent a sex change operation by a Casablanca doctor in 1950. Her marriage to Mr. Corbett son of a former Chief scou, was in Gibraltar in September 1963. Mr. Justice Ormrod, who is also a doctor said in his written judgement that he was the first English judge ever called upon to decide an individual's sex change. Photo shows a picture taken in 1962 showing April Ashley when she appeared at the Aston Club in the West End doing a song and dance act
