Earlier Background
Born Naomi Goddard in London, she was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage in Oxfordshire and later at the University of Paris. At the outbreak of the World War II she returned to England to study medicine at University College London (UCL).
She married her husband, Prakash Datta, in 1943, having met him in Leatherhead, Surrey, where she was studying having been evacuated from the Capital two years earlier. She qualified as a doctor in 1946 and the following year worked as a junior doctor in various hospitals.
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