11 Facts About Wendy Greengross

Wendy Elsa Greengross was a British general practitioner and broadcaster.

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, a manufacturing jeweller, and his wife, Miriam Greengross, nee Abrahamson.

Wendy Greengross's father was mayor of Holborn from 1960 to 1961, and her brother Sir Alan Greengross was born on 1929 and was a leading Conservative member of the Greater London Council.

Together with her husband, Wendy Greengross ran a large general practice in Tottenham, London.

Wendy Greengross particularly promoted family planning, and they were the country's first GP practice to have a dedicated marriage guidance.

Wendy Greengross received counsellor training from the Marriage Guidance Council, and would go on to become its Chief Medical Adviser.

Wendy Greengross went into broadcasting in the early 1970s, joining the BBC Radio 4 counselling programme If You Think You've Got Problems, which ran for nearly eight years.

Wendy Greengross had her own television show on BBC1 in 1973, Let's Talk it Over.

From 1972 to 1976, Wendy Greengross was an agony aunt for The Sun, but "felt the letters passed to her were more about titillation than education".

Wendy Greengross wrote Jewish and Homosexual, published in 1980, by the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, which "led the way towards equality within the British Reform and Liberal movements".

Wendy 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.