Lavinia Young
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.
Young worked as a nurse for 37 years, 21 of those spent at Westminster, retiring in November 1966. She received an Order of the [British Empire|OBE] for her work in 1967.
She served for six years on Shaftesbury Borough Council and, in 1970, she was elected Mayor of Shaftesbury.
Young died in 1986.