Early Life
Born Frances Dorothy Lyon Ritchie in Inverness, she was brought up in Edinburgh, where her grandfather was a Presbyterian elder. Later she relocated to Surrey with her parents.
Her younger brother, David Ritchie, had been born with only one lung and she often visited him at Great Ormond Street. She attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College before returning to Great Ormond Street to train as a paediatric nurse. During her training she was seconded to the Middlesex Hospital to do her General Training. She joined the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, an Anglican order. She became novice mistress and later mother superior by the age of 35.
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