Merryweather, Mary (1818–1880), social reformer and lady superintendent of nursing in Liverpool and London, was born at Longham in the parish of Hampreston, Dorset, on 8 January 1818, one of four children (three daughters and one son) of Samuel Merryweather (1790–1874), a miller and maltster, and his wife, ...
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Merryweather, Mary (1818–1880), social reformer and lady superintendent of nursing in Liverpool and London
Stuart Wildman
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Watt, Dame Katherine Christie (1886–1963), nurse and civil servant
E. J. C. Scott
Watt, Dame Katherine Christie (1886–1963), nurse and civil servant, was born at 40 Victoria Road, Govanhill, Glasgow, on 31 August 1886, the second daughter of James Christie Watt, a master butcher, and his wife, Margaret Leper Semple. Little is known of her life until she began to train as a nurse at the ...
