Gwendoline Kirby
Gwendoline Kirby was a nurse, and matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
She met Queen Elizabeth II when she made an official visit to the hospital in 1952, its centenary, formally greeted her on behalf of the hospital when she visited Princess Anne after the latter's 1958 tonsillectomy, and met her again at the hospital's 150th anniversary celebration, when the queen recognised her.
She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 24 December 1966.
