She was practising midwifery in London by about 1610, and probably received her licence from the bishop of London not long afterwards. In 1634 she was chosen joint leader of a group of sixty midwives...
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Hester Shaw
In the same year that man-midwife Peter Chamberlen
sought to form a corporation of midwives under his own control, HS
and a colleague, Mrs Whipp, headed a deputation to present a petition against him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1634: Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that...
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1634
Peter Chamberlen
(perhaps the third of that name) attempted to form a corporation of midwives with himself as governor; he did not succeed.
