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Mary Gell

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Died
  
1978

Name
  
Mary Gell

Profession
  
Medical missionary

Occupation
  
Doctor of medicine

Nationality
  
British (Manx)


Born
  
16 April 1894 (
1894-04-16
)

Known for
  
Co-founder of War on Want

Institutions
  
St. Agatha's Hospital, North China University of Sheffield, UK

Dr Mary Prowse Gell MB, ChB (16 April 1894 – 1978) was a medical missionary and co-founder of War on Want. She worked at St. Agatha's Hospital, Ping-Yin, Shantung, North China, and later became an associate professor at the University Hospital, Tsinan 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After World War II, she settled in London and became Secretary to the Medical Missions Department of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

Education

Gell graduated from the University of Sheffield, M.B.Ch.B., in 1922.

References

Mary Gell Wikipedia