This month’s update adds 20 lives of outstanding figures from the nursing profession in the twentieth century, curated by Teresa Doherty of the Royal College Of Nursing.
Read her introduction and the summary of new content here
New and updated subjects - February 2020
Altschul, Annie Therese (1919-2001), psychiatric nurse and teacher
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Anderson, Katharine Edith McCall (1866-1924), civilian and military nurse
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Davies, Rachael Annie Cox- (1862-1944), nurse
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Fawkes, Barbara Noel (1914-2002), nurse and promoter of nursing education
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Gibson, Anne Campbell (1849-1926), nurse and poor law reformer
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Gill, Annie Warren (1862-1930), nurse
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Grant, Lucy Gwendoline Duff (1894-1984), nurse
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Greene, John (1916-2001), nurse and health service manager
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Grey, Mona Elizabeth Clara (1910- 2009), nurse and playwright
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Haughton, Louisa Victoria (1867 – 1954), nurse
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Hockey (formerly Hochsinger), Lisbeth (1918-2004), nurse
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Lamb (formerly Young), Margaret Currie Neilson (1906 -1991), nurse educationalist
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MacManus, Emily Elvira Primrose (1886-1978), nurse
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McIntosh, Annie Sophia Jane (1871-1951), nurse and nursing leader
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McKay, (Christina Alexandrina) Tait (1870 – 1949), district nurse
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Nuttall, Peggy Dina (1917-2008), nurse and editor
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Rule, Juanita Bennett (1914-2008), nurse and educationalist
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Simpson, (Hilda) Marjorie (1914-1992), nurse and promoter of nursing research
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Sparshott, Margaret Elwin (1870-1940), nurse
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Yapp, Charlotte Seymour (1879-1934), nurse
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