MA Camb 1945, MB BChir 1942; MRCS Eng LRCP Lond 1942; DCH Eng 1945.
Auckland was born in Bolton on 4 October 1919. After studying at Manchester and Cambridge, Auckland was house surgeon at MRI and St Mary's Hospital Manchester. She later became AMO at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and out-patients registrar (children) at Manchester North Hospital. Auckland was a family planning doctor and psychosexual counsellor for Bolton Health Authority from 1974 to 1983. She was a life fellow of Manchester Medical Society and a member of the Medical Women's Federation and the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine. She married Geoffrey Auckland in 1943.