Wendy Elsa Greengross

Wendy Elsa Greengross (29 April 1925 – 10 October 2012) was a British general practitioner and broadcaster. The Independent called her "a pioneering counsellor and one of the leading figures in fighting for equal rights for the disabled and the elderly".

Early life Wendy Elsa Greengross was born on 29 April 1925, at 10 St Mary's Road, Golders Green, London, the daughter of Morris Philip Greengross, born Moisze Fiszel Gringross (1892–1970), a manufacturing jeweller, and his wife, Miriam Greengross, née Abrahamson (1899/1900–1968).

Her father was mayor of Holborn from 1960 to 1961, and her brother Sir Alan Greengross (born 1929) was a leading Conservative member of the Greater London Council. She particularly promoted family planning, and they were the country's first GP practice to have a dedicated marriage guidance. She had her own television show on BBC1 in 1973, Let's Talk it Over. Sex in Early Marriage (1970) Entitled to Love: the Sexual and Emotional Needs of the Handicapped (1976) Sex and the Handicapped Child (1980) Jewish and Homosexual (1980) Living, Loving and Ageing (1989), with her sister-in-law Baroness Sally Greengross

Personal life In 1951, she married a surgeon, Alex Kates, and they had five children.

Greengross had two daughters, Hilary and Polly, and three sons Nick, Richard, and Trevor (d. 1997).

Greengross lived for many years in Hampstead Garden Suburb, before a retirement flat in Regent's Park Road, where she died on 10 October 2012 of pneumonia. She was buried at Cheshunt's Jewish Cemetery.