Rodney Ledward

Rodney Spencer Ledward (January 1938 – 25 October 2000) was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was accused of injuring women under his care, which he denied. In 1998 he was struck off the medical register after being found guilty by the General Medical Council for serious professional misconduct relating to 13 botched operations at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and the private St Saviour's Hospital in Hythe between 1989 and 1996. R.S. Ledward died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. Early life and career Rodney Spencer Ledward was born in Stone, Staffordshire. He first trained as a pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Manchester. Later he became a surgeon who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. He became an acclaimed senior NHS consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent in 1980, and practiced at multiple private hospitals in the South East of England. In 1983 he married the Hon. Lady Jane Annabelle Howard, the daughter of the 12th Earl of Carlisle. They had one child together.