People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

6 January, 1904
Solihull, Warwickshire, England

Death

9 July, 2000 (aged 96)
Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

myocardial infarction

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Methodist

Education

• Gardiner Central School (Vic)
• Sydney Girls' High School
• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Royal Women's Hospital (Melbourne)
• Royal Sanitary Institute (London)
• University of London

Occupation or Descriptor

• midwife
• nurse (general)
• nurse educator
• nursing administrator
• public servant

Awards

• Madge Kelly memorial prize
• Rockefeller Fellowship
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Key Organisations

• Nurses Board and Hospital Matrons’ Association (Vic)
• Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
• Royal Victorian College of Nursing
• Florence Nightingale Committee of Australia (Vic)
• College of Nursing, Australia
• Nurses’ Aide School
• College of Nursing (NSW)

Workplaces

• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Alfred Hospital (Melbourne)
• Fairfield Hospital (Melbourne)
• Melbourne School of Nursing