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Ethel Gordon <I>Manson</I> Fenwick

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Ethel Gordon Manson Fenwick

Birth
Elgin, Moray, Scotland
Death
13 Mar 1947 (aged 90)
Cumbria, England
Burial
Thoroton, Rushcliffe Borough, Nottinghamshire, England Add to Map
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Founder of the International Council of Nurses and leader of the campaign for state registration of nurses in Britain. Trained as a nurse at Nottingham Children's Hospital and at the age of 24 (1881) was Matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London) before resigning in 1887 on marrying Dr Bedford Fenwick. She founded the British Journal of Nursing in 1893, and remained its editor until 1946, primarily as a vehicle for her polemics on professional status.

Founder of the International Council of Nurses and leader of the campaign for state registration of nurses in Britain. Trained as a nurse at Nottingham Children's Hospital and at the age of 24 (1881) was Matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London) before resigning in 1887 on marrying Dr Bedford Fenwick. She founded the British Journal of Nursing in 1893, and remained its editor until 1946, primarily as a vehicle for her polemics on professional status.



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