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| birth_name = Marian Noel Bostock
| birth_date = 25 December 1891
| birth_place = Epsom, England
| death_date = 18 August 1975
| death_place = British Columbia
| nationality = British, Canadian
| occupation = Physician
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'''Marian Noel Sherman''' (25 December 1891 – 18 August 1975), born '''Marian Noel Bostock''', was an English-born Canadian physician and [[Humanism|humanist]].

== Early life ==
Marian Noel Bostock was born in Christmas Day 1891 in [[Epsom]], the eldest daughter of [[Hewitt Bostock]] and Lizzie Jean McCombie Cowie Bostock.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hancock|first=Eleanor Whitton|date=Winter 1997|title=British Gentlewomen at Monte Creek|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/bchf/bchn_1997-98_winter.pdf|journal=B. C. Historical News|pages=26–29}}</ref> Her father was a publisher and politician, who served in both houses of the Canadian legislature.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1930-04-29|title=Hon. Hewitt Bostock, Speaker of Senate, is Dead at 65|pages=13|work=The Province|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50933766/hon-hewitt-bostock-speaker-of-senate/|access-date=2020-05-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She spent her childhood on [[Vancouver Island]], and at the Bostock family ranch in [[Kamloops]]. She returned to England at age 15 to complete her education at [[Prior's Field School|Prior's Field]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Block|first=Tina|date=2014|title=Ungodly Grandmother: Marian Sherman and the Social Dimensions of Atheism in Postwar Canada|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/journal_of_womens_history/v026/26.4.block.html|journal=Journal of Women's History|language=en|volume=26|issue=4|pages=132–154|doi=10.1353/jowh.2014.0067|issn=1527-2036}}</ref> She gained her medical qualifications at the [[London School of Medicine for Women|London School of Medicine]] in 1917,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1917-05-08|title=Canadian Girl Wins High Medical Degree|pages=9|work=Calgary Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50935975/canadian-girl-wins-high-medical-degree/|access-date=2020-05-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and became a fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England|Royal College of Surgeons]] in 1921.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sherman, Marian Noel (1891 - 1975)|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:379121/one|website=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows|access-date=2020-05-14}}</ref>

== Career ==
Marian Bostock served as an acting house physician at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children|Queens Hospital for Children]] in [[Hackney, London|Hackney]], and as house surgeon at [[St George's Hospital|St. George's Hospital]] in London, during [[World War I]]. She went to India as a medical missionary after the war, and worked as a doctor in India from 1922 to 1934, including a stint as surgeon and medical officer at the Duchess of Teck Hospital in [[Patna]].<ref name=":0" /> The experience brought her, in time, from her [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] upbringing to [[atheism]]: "I found it hard – finally impossible – to believe in a God of love when I saw the sufferings of the women of India", she explained later.<ref name=":1" />

After retiring to Canada, she was active in various causes, including mental health, women's rights, and peace. She was a public atheist, frequently consulted for positions and quotations by the Canadian press. She helped to found the Victorian Humanist Fellowship in 1956, and as president organized lectures and participated in presentations.<ref name=":1" /> In 1968 she was one of the founders of the Humanist Association of Canada. She was named Canadian Humanist of the Year in 1975.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Green|first=Valerie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sCTVlj7QuwC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Marian+Bostock+Sherman&source=bl&ots=n9rpA5-2nn&sig=ACfU3U1wTQ9t0oVRWt45IYjYUm798V9D_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn5Jb7wbPpAhUiO30KHRrNBIkQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Marian%20Bostock%20Sherman&f=false|title=If More Walls Could Talk: Vancouver Island's Houses from the Past|date=2004|publisher=TouchWood Editions|isbn=978-1-894898-22-5|pages=8–10|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=August 23, 1975|title=Woman with a Mission was 'Strong Character'|page=17|work=Victoria Daily Colonist|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-aug-23-1975-1747059/|access-date=May 14, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
In 1928, Marian Noel Bostock married Victor Sherman, a Canadian bank manager she met in India.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1928-05-24|title=Dr. Marian N. Bostock Weds Banker of India in Ottawa|pages=2|work=The Winnipeg Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50933995/dr-marian-n-bostock-weds-banker-of/|access-date=2020-05-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She became stepmother to Sherman's daughter, Ruth, from a previous marriage. The couple retired to [[Victoria, British Columbia]] in 1936.<ref name=":2" /> Sherman was widowed in 1960,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1960-12-20|title=Victor Sherman obituary|pages=36|work=The Ottawa Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50936243/victor-sherman-obituary/|access-date=2020-05-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and she died in 1975, aged 83 years, in British Columbia.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1975-08-22|title=Obituary for Marian SHERMAN|pages=27|work=Times Colonist|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50935104/obituary-for-marian-sherman/|access-date=2020-05-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her papers are in the [[British Columbia Archives]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sherman, Marian Noel (Bostock). Victoria; Physician, Humanist|url=https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sherman-marian-noel-bostock-victoria-physician-humanist-2|website=RBCM Archives|access-date=2020-05-14}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Find a Grave|102801115}}

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