Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
(1916-1997), Surgeon; daughter of Adrian and Karin StephenSitter in 8 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.
Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver developing-out paper print, 1918
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Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen); Christopher Strachey
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1920
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Christopher Strachey; Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen); (Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen)
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1921
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Mary O'Malley; Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen); Christopher Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1922-1923
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Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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Karin Stephen with Ann and Judith
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver developing-out paper print, December 1926
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Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver developing-out paper print, 1926
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Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
vintage contact print, 1937
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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)
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