Former clinician in mother and child welfare clinics Newcastle upon Tyne (b 1920; q Aberdeen 1942; MD, DCM), d 30 October 2005.
Cecilia Valentine Russell—known as Wendy to her friends—was born in Jamaica. During the war years she worked as a house surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She married fellow student James Knox Russell in 1944 and then settled in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she worked for several years in mother and child welfare clinics. She retired from clinical practice in the early 1970s. She leaves a husband, three daughters, and four granddaughters.
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