Lady Ursula Ridley

[1] Ursula’s father was the architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and her mother was Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton.

[8] Sir James Calvert Spence, the eminent paediatrician, worked at the hospital and there developed his approach of social paediatrics.

[8] Ursula took an active part in the hopital; assisting surgeons during operations and acting as "nurse receptionist".

[9] She argued that family planning should be an integral part of the National Health Service[9] and that contraceptives should be available in pubs.

[12] As the first president of the North East Branch of the Association, she addressed the Bradford and West Riding Magistrates in 1953.

She told the assembly that fines and maintenance money should be taken directly from wage packets to allow people to budget more effectively and therefore avoid prison.