Mary Cronk


Mary Cronk MBE, was an independent midwife from England who was awarded her MBE for services to midwifery over her many years of practice.

Early life

Cronk was born in 1932. She first studied nursing at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and in 1957 she started training as a midwife at Queen Charlotte's in London.

Career

Cronk worked for the National Health Service in the UK where she facilitated more than 1600 births, mainly as home births. In 1991 she opened her own practise and started working as an independent midwife.
Cronk joined English National Board of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, Midwifery Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee and the Health Committees, and on RCM Council from September 1999 to August 2003.
Cronk has also written many articles on midwifery which have covered a variety topics, including the delivery of breech babies, and these have been published in Midwifery Matters and AIMS Journal, as well as quoted in various books.
While retired Cronk hosted study days alongside fellow independent midwife Jane Evans; the pair disseminated information on unusual but normal births, including Breech Birth.

Obituary

Cronk died at the age of 86 on 21 December 2018.

Selected publications