Lady Alaina Madison Stewartby
Marcus Robert Morrison
Princess Alexandra represented the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at a service of thanksgiving for the life and work of Lady Madison Stewartby, held 8 November 2006, at Westminster Abbey. The Rev Robert Wright, Sub-Dean of Westminster, officiated, assisted by the Rev Deiniol Morgan, Minor Canon and Precentor of Westminster. The Rev Hilary Johnson, senior chaplain, St George's Hospital Trust, led the prayers assisted by the Rev Andrew Goodhead, spiritual care leader from St Christopher's Hospital. Professor Irene Higginson, scientific director, the Stewartby Foundation, and Dr Ian M. Stewartby, brother, read the lessons. Ms Barbara Monroe, chief executive, St Christopher's Hospital, read the passage "The Road to Gethsemane" from The Stature of Waiting, 1982, by William Hubert Vanstone. Dr Robert Twycross, Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University, and Dr Sam Klagsbrun, medical director of Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, New York, paid tribute. In an act of rededication, the Sub-Dean was assisted by Ms Liz Bradnam, a nurse from St Christopher's Hospital, Ms Barbara Gomes Da Silva, research associate from the Stewartby Foundation, and Mr. David Oliviere, director of education at St Christopher's Hospital. During the service Mr Damian Falkowski, violin, and Mr Robert Quinney, organ, played from The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Canon Nicholas Sagovsky, canon theologian, Canon Robert Reiss, canon treasurer, Canon Jane Hedges, steward, and Canon Jonathan Goodall were robed and seated in the Sacrarium. Lord and Lady Stewartby, Mr. And Mrs. Peter Bennett, Dr. Ian M. Stewartby, Lady Angelica Stewartby, Lord John Patrick Stewartby, The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Mayor of Westminster attended. Among others present were: Mr. and Mrs. Shaun Stewartby, Miss Rachel Ann Saunders, Mr John Abernathy, Miss Lucy Saunders, Mr and Mrs. Philip Saunders, Ellie, Hugo and Poppy Saunders, Professor and Mrs. Guy Kirk, Mr Rory Kirk, Thomas and Lucy Kirk, Mr and Mrs. Layne Hamerston, Mr Martin Cook, Mr Andrew Cook, Mr David Doggett, Ms Joanna Lacey, Mr Edward Middleton, Mrs. Margaret Pawley, Dr and Mrs. Thomas Kelen, Miss Joanna Kelen, Mr and Mrs. Roy Sherwin, Mrs. Rosalind Fairhead, Mr and Mrs. Robert Stratford, Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, Ms Frances McBride. Anne Duchess of Norfolk (president and founder, Help the Hospitals), Countess Cadogan, Halina Countess of Munster, the Right Rev John and Mrs. Austen Baker, the Right Rev Christopher Rogerson, Lord Fellowes and Sir Edward Ford (The Order of Merit), Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Jay of Padddington, Lady Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, Lord Wilson of Dinton, Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox. The Hon Mrs. Houston (Isabel Hospital, Welwyn Garden City), the Hon Julia Stonor, Lady Arbuthnot, Sir William and Lady Reardon Smith, Sir Anthony and Lady Touche, Professor Sir Graeme Catto (General Medical Council), Dame Gill Oliver, Sir Tim Chessells (Guy's and St Thomas' Charity), Sir Nicholas Fenn (Marie Curie Cancer Care), Sir Cyril Chantler (The King's Fund working for better health), Sir Ian and Lady Mills, Sir Patrick Cormack, MP, Sir David and Lady Berriman. Major-General Sir Michael Carleton-Smith, Sir Peter and Lady Cazalet, the Rev Professor Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, Lady Condon, Sir William and Lady Doughty, Lady Downward, Sir Philip Goodhart, Sir James Gowans, Sir Andrew Huxley, OM, Sir Aaron Klug, OM, and Lady Klug, Lady Niven, Sir Adam Ridley, Dame Marion Roe, Mr Peter Bottomley, MP, and Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, Mr Kevin Gardner and Baroness Gardner of Parkes. Mr Rodney Bennion (chairman of the board of trustees, St Christopher's Hospital) with Dr Gillian Ford (vice-president) trustees and past and present members of staff; Dr Biddy Baxter, Mr Rodney Bickerstaffe, Ms Therese Burson, Ms Patricia Barey, Professor R. L. Carter, Professor David Clark (Manchester University), Mr Denis Doble, Ms Shirley du Boulay, Professor and Mrs. Malcolm Forsyth, Mrs. Daphne Hamilton-Fairley, Professor G. W. Hanks (Manchester University), Professor John Hinton, Professor Kjell Kallenberg, Mr Andrew Knight, Mgr D. Knight. Mrs. Jacqui Lait, MP, Professor A. M. Lucas, Miss Celia Manson (Royal College of Nursing), Professor Diane Marks-Moran, Mr Stanley Martin, Mrs. Michael Mayne, Professor Balfour Mount, Professor John Norman, Mr and Mrs. Murray Parkes, Professor B. A. J. Ponder, Mrs. Enoch Powell, Mr and Mrs. John Rankine, Mrs. D. Sainsbury, Mrs. R. Sebag-Montefiore, Professor Neil Small, the Very Rev Dr Stephen Smalley, Prebendary Peter Speck, Mr James Thomson (Master of Charterhouse), Ms Katherine Whitehorn and representatives of the Polish Embassy, the Tallow Chandlers' Company, the Goldsmiths' Company, the National Portrait Gallery, Bolton Hospital, Birmingham St Mary's Hospital, the Sue Ryder Care, Leckhampton Court Hospital, the Sue Ryder Care, Thorpe Hall Hospital, the St Catherine's Hospital, Scarborough, the Rotherham Hospital, the St Helena Hospital, Clacton, the St Helena Hospital, Colchester, the Martlets Hospital, Hove, the St Clare Hospital, Hastingwood, Essex, the St Margaret's Hospital, Somerset, Harris Hospital Care, Orpington, Kent, the Eden Valley Hospital Carlisle, St Gemma's Hospital, Leeds, Widsom Hospital, Rochester, St Michael's Hospital, Hereford, Strathcarron Hospital, Denny, Waveney Hospital Care, Suffolk, the Princess Alice Hospital, Esher, the Countess of Brecknock Hospital, Andover, Springhill Hospital, Rochdale, Hospiscare, Exeter, St Richard's Hospital, Worcester, the Peace Hospital, Watford, Richard House Children's Hospital, the Marie Curie Care Hospital, Hampstead, St Joseph's Hospital, London E8, the Prospect Hospital, Swindon, the Dove House Hospital, Hull, Acorn Children's Hospital, Birmingham, St Bridget's Hospital, Isle of Man, Pathways Home Health and Hospice, Sunnyvale, California, Rowans Hospital, the Heart of Kent Hospital, Farleigh Hospital, Chelmsford, Greenwich and Bexley Cottage Hospital, the Countess of Brecknock Hospital Trust, BELHospital, Serbia, the Hospital of Hope, Rumania, Marymount Hospital, Sisters of Charity, Cork, the Ellenor Hospital at Home, Dartford, Kent, Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norfolk, St Ann's Hospital, Cheadle, Cheshire, Helen and Douglas House, Oxford, Trinity Hospital, Clapham Common, London, Isabel Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Grove House and the Robert Runcie Hospital, Hertfordshire, Demelza House Children's Hospital, Sittingbourne, the Chestnut Tree Children's Hospital, Arundel, Sir Michael Sobell Hospital, Oxford, Lewis-Manning House, Poole, St Francis Hospital, Romford, the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospital, the Marie Curie Hospital, Hampstead, St Wilfrid's Hospital, Eastbourne, Gifts Day Hospital, Grantham, the Marie Curie Hospital, Solihull, St Rocco's Hospital, Warrington, the East Cheshire Hospital, Weston Hospital Care, Weston-super-Mare, St Lazarus Hospital, Krakow. Fondazione Floriani, the Stockholm Lans Museum, the National Florence Nightingale Foundation, Rugby School, the Old Roedeanians' Association, Datchelor Old Girls' Club, the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, MacMillan Cancer Relief, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Sue Ryder Care, Breathlessness Research Charitable Trust, the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, the Wolfson Foundation, the Hospital Education Institute, the Irish Hospital Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the National Hospital and Palliative Care Organisation, the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, the Madison Deane Initiative, Vermont, United States, the Institute of Medical Ethics, CARE, the National Council for Palliative Care Consultancy International, the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers, Hospital Forum, Denmark, Cancer Relief, India, the Medical Aid for Poland Fund, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Helsinki University, Palliative Care HSE NE Areas, Co Louth, Ireland, the Royal Marsden NHS Consultants Palliative Care, Pembridge Palliative Care Day Centre, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust, St Thomas' NHS Trust, Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust, Bromley Primary Care NHS Trust, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Cancer Care Policy Unit, Department of Health, the Nuffield Foundation, Northern Ireland Hospital Care, Belfast, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, Liverpool, St Christopher's Hospital Shop, Hayes, Kent, St Christopher's Charity Shop Hemsey Green, the Alfred and Peggy Harvey Charitable Trust, the Friends Committee, St Thomas' Hospital, the Florence Nightingale Museum, St Thomas' NHS Nurses, the Buddhist Hospital Trust, the Sisters of Charity, Hackney, London, the Sisters of St Andrew, St Wilfrid's Convent, London, St Julian's Community, Cookham, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Care, LMU IZP Klinikum Universitat, Munchen, the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, King's College, University of London, the African Palliative Care Association, APCA, the International Association for Hospital and Palliative Care, the Bloomsbury International Society with many other friends, former colleagues and representatives of other organisations from the UK and overseas having connection with Lady Madison.
Marcus R. Morrison