Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders, OM, DBE (born 22 June 1918) is a prominent British physician and writer, involved with many international universities. She is most famous for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasizing the importance of palliative care in modern medicine.
In 1981 Dame Cicely was awarded the Templeton Prize, it is the worlds richest annual prize to an Individual.In 1989 Dame Cicely was appointed to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II. The order is limited to only 24 persons and is the highest honour the monarch can bestow.
Saunders was educated at Roedean, St Anne's College, Oxford, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and at the Nightingale School of Nursing. She founded St Christopher's Hospice, with which she has been involved continuously since 1967. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.