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Elsie WiddowsonCHCBEFRS (21 October – 14 June ), was a British dietitian and nutritionist.
She and Dr Robert McCance, a pediatrician, physiologist, biochemist, and nutritionist, were responsible for overseeing the government-mandated addition of vitamins to food and wartime rationing in Britain during World War II.
Early life
Widdowson was born in Wallington, Surrey on 21 October to Rose Elphick and Harry Widdowson.
Her father, Thomas Henry (known as Harry), was from Grantham in Lincolnshire and moved to Battersea as a grocer's assistant and eventually owned a stationery business, whilst her mother Rose, originally from Dorking, worked as a dressmaker.
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Her younger sister Eva Crane trained as a nuclear physicist but became a world-renowned authority on bees. The family were Plymouth Brethren.
Elsie lived in Dulwich as a child and attended Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls where both she and her sister won prizes.
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