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  • Stella Churchill
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  • Dr Stella Churchill (née Myers) (1883 - 16 September 1954) was a physician, health educator and Labour Party politician. Born in Birmingham, she graduated from Cambridge in 1905 and married Sidney John Alexander Churchill in 1908. She qualified as a doctor after attending the London School of Medicine for Women in 1915. From 1920-22 she was Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Maternity and Child Welfare in Bermondsey and from 1922-24 Assistant and Deputy Medical Officer of Health for St Pancras. After retiring from public health she acted as a psychotherapist.
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  • Dr Stella Churchill (née Myers) (1883 - 16 September 1954) was a physician, health educator and Labour Party politician. Born in Birmingham, she graduated from Cambridge in 1905 and married Sidney John Alexander Churchill in 1908. She qualified as a doctor after attending the London School of Medicine for Women in 1915. From 1920-22 she was Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Maternity and Child Welfare in Bermondsey and from 1922-24 Assistant and Deputy Medical Officer of Health for St Pancras. After retiring from public health she acted as a psychotherapist. Active in the Labour Party from the 1920s, she unsuccessfully stood as the party's candidate at Hackney North at the 1924 general election and at Brentford and Chiswick at the 1929 general election. She sat as a member of the London County Council representing Southwark South East from 1925 until she resigned on 17 June 1932.