Dates

• Existence: Born 1944

Biography

Ruth Campbell (née Droller), a neuropsychologist, was born in Sheffield. Her parents, both physicians, fled Nazi Germany for the UK in 1933. Ruth’s father Hugo Droller is renowned in the North of England for his innovations in geriatric medicine. In 1951 the Drollers relocated from Sheffield to Leeds, where Hugo Droller became the city’s first consultant geriatrician.