Lady Forber

• 1878: Electric light bulb invented

• 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation

• 1884: Speaker Brand retires

• 1884: Fabian Society founded

• 1885: Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club founded

• 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee

• 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened

• 1899: Boer War starts

• 1901: Queen Victoria dies

• 1903: 1st aeroplane flight by Wright Bros.

• 1905: Ragged Lands established

• 1909: Introduction of Old Age Pension

• 1912: Sinking of the Titanic

• 1914: Start of 1st World War

• 1916: Battle of the Somme

• 1918: End of 1st World War

• 1919: 1st trans-atlantic flight

• 1920: League of Nations founded

• 1922: Irish Free State founded

• 1924: Lenin dies

• 1926: General Strike

• 1928: Women get the vote

• 1934: Hitler assumes power in Germany

• 1936: Regular BBC TV broadcasts begin

• 1939: Start of 2nd World War

• 1940: Dunkirk evacuation

• 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour

• 1944: "D-Day" landings in France

• 1945: End of 2nd World War

• 1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island

• 1947: Sound Barrier broken

• 1948: NHS founded

• 1950: Korean War starts

• 1951: Suez "Crisis"

• 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned

• 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile

• 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public

• 1955: ITV starts broadcasting

• 1957: 1st dog in space

• 1958: Gatwick Airport opened

• 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened

• 1961: 1st man in space

• 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated

• 1965: Post Office Tower opened

• 1966: England win World Cup

• 1967: 1st heart transplant

Dr Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon (Lady Forber) BSc, MD, MB, Dsc.

Born Boston, Lincolnshire, 3 February 1877, died Seaford, 17 July 1967 and buried at Bishopstone.

Pioneer cancer researcher and women and children's health activist, she married Sir Edward Rodolph Forber 1929, and they lived for a while at Ragged Lands, Glynde, and later at Bishopstone Manor, near Seaford.

Won first-class honours Physiology and gold-medal winning student 1902; BMA research scholarship, 1902-3, DSc, 1905, MB, BS, 1907, MD, 1910, spoke French and German, research scholar, Lister Instiute, studied infant mortality in relation to infant feeding in Germany and Sweden, breast v milk substitutes, 1909-11, lecturer in physiology and hygiene, Battersea Polytechnic, 1910-12, and at King's College for Women, 1916-23.

Commissioned by the Medical Research Council to write a book on infant feeding, 1916; member of Women's Sub-Committee of Advisory Council of Ministry of Reconstruction, 1918; Vice-President WSIHVA, 1918-19; President WSIHVA, 1920; one of the first women to be appointed a magistrate, 1920; Investigation Officer to Ministry of Health Cancer Committee, 1923-30; physician, RFH; surgeon, Belgrave Hospital for Children; published Cancer of the Breast and Its Surgical Treatment: A Review of the Literature (1924), A Further Report on Cancer of the Breast with Special Reference to its Associated Antecedents (1926), and Report on the Late Results of Operation for Cancer of the breast (1928); her research interests also included midwifery practice, child welfare and other forms of cancer.

In all 32 publications, including Poor-Law Babies in London and Berlin (1910).

Much of the information for this article has been extracted from Women, A Modern Political Dictionary, by Cheryl Law (I B Tauris, 2000).