Lavinia Young | |
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Born | Mary Lavinia Bessie Young 1911 |
Died | June 1986 |
Nationality | British |
Medical career | |
Profession | Matron |
Institutions | Westminster hospital |
Lavinia Young was matron of Westminster Hospital from 1951 until her retirement in 1966.
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 December 1964. [1]
Young worked as a nurse for 37 years, 21 of those spent at Westminster, retiring in November 1966. [2] She received an OBE for her work in 1967 [3] .
She served for six years on Shaftesbury Borough Council and, in 1970, she was elected Mayor of Shaftesbury [4] .
Young died in 1986. [4]
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