Sheridan Russell
Sheridan Russell was a cellist, medical doctor, and patron of the arts. He was Head Almoner at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and founded the Paintings in Hospitals charity.
He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 4 April 1970.
Russell was known as Britain's first male almoner.
Russell did not speak until he was three years old. At five years of age, he began to learn the cello. As a child in Paris, he was frequently taken to lunch with Claude Debussy. It was Debussy who diagnosed Russell as being partially deaf.
During World War II, Russell worked for British Intelligence in Italy.
