Royal Northern Hospital Rita Thomson (16 August 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Scottish nurse who looked after the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears at their home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.
She attended Dingwall Academy, and the Edinburgh School of Mothercraft, afterwards training as a nurse at the Royal Northern Hospital in Inverness.
In 1973, she was part of the team looking after the composer Benjamin Britten, who was brought into intensive care for an operation to replace a heart valve.
[2] During that time, the Red House became the centre for the Britten-Pears Foundation, which celebrates Britten's music and his work with Pears.
In the film, Jenni Wake Walker, a colleague at the Aldeburgh Festival, is quoted as saying "Rita was a breath of fresh air for Ben.