Angela Sinclair-Loutit

Angela Sinclair-Loutit (1 March 1921 – 18 August 2016) was an English social justice activist, pacifist and nurse.

Early life She was born in Kensington on St David's Day in 1921, to Winifred de Renzy-Martin (née Hull) and her husband Edward, a lieutenant colonel in the army. She was raised in Hampshire and attended Downe House School in Berkshire. She had a twin brother called David and two older sisters.

Conscientious objection and the Friends Ambulance Unit In 1940, following the outbreak of the Second World War, she left her PPE studies at Somerville College, Oxford to attend a nursing course run by Lady Louis Mountbatten. She was subsequently posted to a hospital in Weston-super-Mare for six months.

After leaving Weston-super-Mare, she received a letter from her friend Michael Watson telling her about the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), and she began to work with them, becoming one of the unit's first female members. She stayed at the London Hospital Students' Hostel on Whitechapel Road with 180 men and only one other woman and worked in the East End throughout the Blitz, distributing first aid, food and drink. Her father attended as a witness to the sincerity of her beliefs.

Sinclair-Loutit settled in Islington, qualified as a psychiatric social worker at the Polytechnic of North London and worked in north-London hospitals.

She died at the age of 95, on 18 August 2016, while on holiday in France.