Eileen Crofton

Crofton was educated at North London Collegiate College and Somerville College, Oxford. She qualified as a doctor in 1943 and became a doctor in the RAMC in 1944/45. She married in 1945, had five children, and moved to Edinburgh in 1952 when her husband was appointed Professor of Respiratory Diseases at Edinburgh University. In 1962 she resumed her career as a Research Assistant in Medical Epidemiology and as a Medical Officer with the British Red Cross. She became the first Medical Director of Action on Smoking and Health, Scotland. She served on the World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Smoking. She retired in 1982 and was awarded the MBE. She was the author of numerous medical papers.