Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (1916-1997), Surgeon; Daughter of Adrian and Karin Stephen
Sitter in 2 portraits
Synge was the daughter of psychologist Karin Stephen and psychoanalyst Adrian Stephen (brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell). She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, where her mother had been a student and later delivered the first lecture course ever given on psychoanalysis. Becoming a medical doctor in 1943, she married the biochemist Richard Synge. The couple did much to promote the Peace movement, especially the Peace Council. Both worked for a comprehensive test ban treaty.
Karin Stephen with Ann and Judith
by Unknown photographer
printing-out paper print, December 1926
NPG Ax160900
Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
vintage contact print, 1937
NPG x31090
Woolf
Related People
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (aunt)
Mary Berenson (née Smith) (grandmother)
Benjamin Francis Conn ('Frank') Costelloe (grandfather)
(Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (sister)
Adrian Stephen (father)
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth) (grandmother)
Catherine Elizabeth Conn ('Karin') Stephen (née Costelloe) (mother)
Sir Leslie Stephen (grandfather)
Thoby Stephen (uncle)
Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe) (aunt)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge (husband)
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (aunt)
Category
Medicine
Place
Cambridgeshire
