Editing Cicely Saunders (section)

==Early life and education==
Saunders was born in [[Chipping Barnet|Barnet]], Hertfordshire, to Philip Gordon Saunders, a chartered surveyor and landowner, and to Mary Christian Knight.<ref name="birth"/> She had two younger brothers, John Frederick Stacey Saunders and Christopher Gordon Strode Saunders.<ref name="register">''[[1939 England and Wales Register]]''</ref>

After attending [[Roedean School]] (1932–37), Saunders began studying politics, philosophy, and economics at [[St Anne's College, Oxford]] in 1938. During the war, she decided to become a nurse and trained at [[Nightingale School of Nursing]] based at [[St Thomas's Hospital]] from 1940 to 1944.<ref name="stchristophers.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/damecicelysaunders|title=Dame Cicely Saunders |work=St. Christopher's}}</ref><ref name="Biography">{{Cite web|url=https://cicelysaundersinternational.org/dame-cicely-saunders/|title=Biography|website=Cicely Saunders International|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref> Returning to St Anne's College after a back injury in 1944, she took a [[Bachelor's degree|BA]] in 1945, qualifying as a medical social worker in 1947 and eventually trained as a doctor at [[St Thomas's Hospital Medical School]] (now merged to form [[King's College London GKT School of Medical Education]]) and qualified [[MBBS]] in 1957.<ref name="stchristophers.org.uk"/>