Cicely Saunders

Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM DBE FRCS FRCP FRCN (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English Doctor, nurse, social worker, physician and writer, an Anglican, and involved with terminal care research and engaged with international universities. She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine. She is the subject of a biography published in 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth.